ArticlePalliative medicine2024
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- 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 · 2025Pooled it
- Improving hospice delirium guideline adoption through an understanding of barriers and facilitators: A mixed-methods study.PloS one · 2024Article
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11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundDelirium is a complex condition, stressful for all involved. Although highly prevalent in palliative care settings, it remains underdiagnosed and associated with poor outcomes. Guideline-adherent delirium care may improve its detection, assessment and management.
aimTo inform a future definitive study that tests whether an implementation strategy designed to improve guideline-adherent delirium care in palliative care settings improves patient outcomes (reduced proportion of in-patient days with delirium).
designWith Patient Involvement members, we conducted a feasibility study to assess the acceptability of and engagement with the implementation strategy by hospice staff (intervention), and whether clinical record data collection of process (e.g. SETTING/
participantsIn-patient admissions in three English hospices.
resultsBetween June 2021 and December 2022, clinical record data were extracted from 300 consecutive admissions. Despite data collection during COVID-19, target clinical record data collection (
conclusionsCollection of data on delirium outcomes and guideline-adherence from clinical records is feasible. The signal of patient benefit supports formal evaluation in a large-scale study.
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