ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2021
ED-DEL: Development of a change package and toolkit for delirium in the emergency department.
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- Risk factors and risk stratification approaches for delirium screening: A Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 systematic review.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Delirium in Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Management Strategies, and Hospital Utilization Outcomes.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Delirium in older adults in the emergency department: a scoping review of current research and identified knowledge gaps.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to the Fidelity of Delirium Screening in the Emergency Department: An Ethnographic Approach.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Knowledge and attitudes toward delirium: a multi-centered survey in a sample of physicians and pre-registration house officers in Egypt.European geriatric medicine · 2025Article
- Validation of 4 Risk Stratification Tools for Delirium in the Emergency Department.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Delirium Prevention and Management in Older Adults in the Emergency Department.Emergency medicine clinics of North America · 2025Review
- Implementation of delirium screening in the emergency department: A qualitative study with early adopters.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Leveraging the Electronic Health Record to Implement Emergency Department Delirium Screening.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- Evaluating older adults with cognitive dysfunction: A qualitative study with emergency clinicians.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Increased short-term mortality among patients presenting with altered mental status to the emergency department: A cohort study.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2022Observational
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- ED-DEL: Development of a change package and toolkit for delirium in the emergency department.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2021Article
- A SURVEY OF DELIRIUM SELF-REPORTED KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES AMONG EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES.Journal of geriatric emergency medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Delirium is a common and deadly problem in the emergency department affecting up to 30% of older adult patients. The 2013 Geriatric Emergency Department guidelines were developed to address the unique needs of the growing older population and identified delirium as a high priority area. The emergency department (ED) environment presents unique challenges for the identification and management of delirium, including patient crowding, time pressures, competing priorities, variable patient acuity, and limitations in available patient information. Accordingly, protocols developed for inpatient units may not be appropriate for use in the ED setting. We created a Delirium Change Package and Toolkit in the Emergency Department (ED-DEL) to provide protocols and guidance for implementing a delirium program in the ED setting. This article describes the multistep process by which the ED-DEL program was created and the key components of the program. Our ultimate goal is to create a resource that can be disseminated widely and used to improve delirium identification, prevention, and management in older adults in the ED.
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