Strategies to improve delirium recognition in hospitalized older adults.

J Contin Educ Nurs

The Center for Nursing Research, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Published: February 2013

As 24-hour caregivers, nurses' detection of delirium is critical to physician diagnosis because of the waxing and waning of delirium-related clinical features. However, nurses fail to accurately interpret delirium-related clinical features more than 30% of the time.

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