Implementation of Delirium Screening at Scale in Older Patients With Emergency Hospital Admission

Emily Louise Boucher; Jasmine Ming Gan; Nicola G Lovett; Sarah C Smith; Sasha Shepperd; Sarah Tamsin Pendlebury

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.1128

Implementation of Delirium Screening at Scale in Older Patients With Emergency Hospital Admission

JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Jul 1;185(7):884-887. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.1128.

Authors

Emily Louise Boucher¹, Jasmine Ming Gan¹, Nicola G Lovett^{2

3}, Sarah C Smith^{2

3}, Sasha Shepperd⁴, Sarah Tamsin Pendlebury^{1

2

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Wolfson Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Wolfson Building, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
² Department of Acute General (Internal) Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁵ NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom.

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This cohort study assesses the frequency of screen completion and the prevalence and outcomes of delirium diagnosis for older patients with unplanned admission to acute general (internal) medicine.

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