A quality improvement approach to cognitive assessment on hospice admission: could we use the 4AT or Short CAM?

What it found

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Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Barriers to healthcare professionals screening, recognizing, and managing delirium in the adult patients receiving specialist palliative care: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMC palliative care · 2025
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2. Improving the detection, assessment, management and prevention of delirium in palliative care units (the DAMPen-Delirium II study): protocol for an implementation-to-target Type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomised-controlled trial, economic evaluation and process evaluation of the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care-Palliative (CLECC-Pal) implementation strategy.Implementation science : IS · 2026
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3. The detection of delirium in admitted oncology patients: a scoping review.European geriatric medicine · 2022
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4. Prevalence of Delirium in End-of-Life Palliative Care Patients: An Observational Study.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2022
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5. A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Delirium as a Multifactorial Syndrome.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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6. "SQiD, the Single Question in Delirium; can a single question help clinicians to detect delirium in hospitalised cancer patients?" running heading Single Question in Delirium" (Bcan-D-20-01665).BMC cancer · 2021
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7. Quality improvement and delirium.European geriatric medicine · 2020
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8. Delirium superimposed on dementia.European geriatric medicine · 2020
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9. Feasibility and Acceptability of a Best Supportive Care Checklist among Clinicians.Journal of palliative medicine · 2018
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10. Underrecognition of Delirium in Palliative Care: A Retrospective Comparison Between Cancer and Noncancer Patient Populations.Palliative medicine reports
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Authors and funding

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