Validation of a Nurse-Based Delirium Screening Tool for Hospitalized Patients

Guidelines recommend daily delirium monitoring of hospitalized patients. Available delirium-screening tools have not been validated for use by nurses among diverse inpatients. We sought to validate the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale (Nu-DESC) under these circumstances.

Source: Psychosomatics - June 5, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anita Hargrave, Jesse Bastiaens, James A. Bourgeois, John Neuhaus, S Andrew Josephson, Julia Chinn, Melissa Lee, Jacqueline Leung, Vanja Douglas Source Type: research