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A Nurse-Led Interdisciplinary Intervention Program for Delirium in Elderly Hip-Fracture Patients by Koen Milisen; Marquis D. Foreman; Ivo L. Abraham; Sabina De Geest; Jan Godderis; Erik Vandermeulen; Benjamin Fischler; Herman H. Delooz; Bart Spiessens; Paul L. O. Broos is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objectives: To develop and test the effect of a nurse-led interdisciplinary intervention program for delirium on the incidence and course (severity and duration) of delirium, cognitive functioning, functional rehabilitation, mortality, and length of stay in older hip-fracture patients. ## Design: Longitudinal prospective before/after design (sequential design). ## Setting: The emergency room and two traumatological units of an academic medical center located in an urban area in belgium. ## Participants: 60 patients in an intervention cohort (81.7% females, median age = 82, interquartile range (iqr) = 13) and another 60 patients in a usual care/nonintervention cohort (80% females, median age = 80, iqr = 12). ## Intervention: (1) education of nursing staff, (2) systematic cognitive screening, (3) consultative services by a delirium resource nurse, a geriatric nurse specialist, or a psychogeriatrician, and (4) use of a scheduled pain protocol. ## Measurements: All patients were monitored for signs of delirium, as measured by the confusion assessment method (cam). severity of delirium was assessed using a variant of the cam. cognitive and functional status were measured by the mini-
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- Author
- Koen Milisen; Marquis D. Foreman; Ivo L. Abraham; Sabina De Geest; Jan Godderis; Erik Vandermeulen; Benjamin Fischler; Herman H. Delooz; Bart Spiessens; Paul L. O. Broos
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; The American Geriatrics Society; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8614)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)