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Delirium in the Emergency Department: Novel Screening

1 maj 2018 uppdaterad av: Jin H. Han, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Delirium is an acute confusional state characterized by altered or fluctuating mental status, inattention, and either disorganized thinking or an altered level of consciousness. This form of organ dysfunction occurs in up to 10% of older emergency department (ED) patients and is associated with worsening mortality, prolonged hospital length of stay, higher health care costs, and accelerated functional and cognitive decline. Despite the negative consequences of delirium, the majority of cases are unrecognized by emergency physicians because it is not routinely screened for. In an effort to facilitate delirium screening, the investigators sought to validate three brief delirium assessments in the ED setting.

Studieöversikt

Status

Avslutad

Betingelser

Detaljerad beskrivning

Delirium is often missed because emergency physicians do not routinely screen for this diagnosis. Most delirium assessments can take up to 10 minutes to perform making them less likely to be incorporated into the routine physician assessment. Using brief (<2 minutes) and easy to use delirium assessments may ameliorate this quality of care issue. The Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) possesses these characteristics, but has only been validated in mechanically and non-mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patients. Recently, the investigators also developed the Brief Confusion Assessment Method (B-CAM) which is a modification of the CAM-ICU. The benefit is that it takes even less time than the CAM-ICU. The investigators also developed the Emergency Department Delirium Triage Screen (ED-DTS) designed to be highly sensitive and moderately specific delirium assessment for the nurse's triage assessment. It is hypothesized that a negative ED-DTS would rule out delirium, while a positive ED-DTS would require a more formal delirium assessment such as the CAM-ICU and B-CAM. These new delirium assessments require validation in older ED patients. As result, the investigators propose the following and the following specific aims:

Aim #1: To validate the B-CAM in older ED patients. The B-CAM will be performed by a clinical trials associate (CTA) and principal investigator in 200 ED patients that are > 65 years old. This instrument will be validated against a psychiatrist's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th. Edition Text Revision assessment as the reference standard.

Aim #2: To validate the CAM-ICU in older ED patients. The CAM-ICU will be performed by a clinical trials associate (CTA) and principal investigator in approximately 200 ED patients that are > 65 years old. This instrument will be validated against a psychiatrist's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th. Edition Text Revision assessment as the reference standard.

Aim #3: To validate the ED-DTS in older ED patients. The ED-DTS will be performed by a clinical trials associate (CTA) and principal investigator in 200 ED patients that are > 65 years old. This instrument will be validated against a psychiatrist's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th. Edition Text Revision assessment as the reference standard.

Studietyp

Observationell

Inskrivning (Faktisk)

498

Kontakter och platser

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Studieorter

  • Förenta staterna
    • Tennessee
      • Nashville, Tennessee, Förenta staterna, 37232
        • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Deltagandekriterier

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Urvalskriterier

Åldrar som är berättigade till studier

65 år och äldre (Äldre vuxen)

Tar emot friska volontärer

Nej

Kön som är behöriga för studier

Allt

Testmetod

Icke-sannolikhetsprov

Studera befolkning

The participants will be those who are Vanderbilt University Emergency Department patients 65 years or older. There will be no selection bias in regards to race or gender. Only those who meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria will be considered for study inclusion.

Beskrivning

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 65 years of age or greater
  • In the Emergency Department for less than 12 hour at the time of enrollment

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Severe mental retardation or dementia
  • Baseline communication barriers such as aphasia, deafness, blindness, or who are unable to speak English
  • Refusal of consent
  • Previous enrollment
  • Comatose
  • Out of the hospital before the assessments are completed

Studieplan

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Hur är studien utformad?

Designdetaljer

Kohorter och interventioner

Grupp / Kohort
Older Emergency Department Patients
Patients who were 65 years or older from the emergency department were enrolled.

Vad mäter studien?

Primära resultatmått

Resultatmått
Åtgärdsbeskrivning
Tidsram
Delirium
Tidsram: Within 3 hours of the study assessments.
Delirium was diagnosed by a consultation-liaison psychiatrist assessment using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria. The psychiatrists performed a battery of bedside cognitive tests, including (but not limited to) Clock Drawing Test, Luria hand sequencing task, and tests for verbal fluency. A focused neurological examination (i.e., screening for paraphasic errors, tremors, tone, asterixis, frontal release signs etc.,) and evaluation for affective lability, hallucinations, and level of alertness were also conducted routinely. Confrontational naming, proverb interpretation or similarities, and assessments for apraxias were performed at the discretion of the reference psychiatrists, especially if the diagnosis of delirium was inconclusive.
Within 3 hours of the study assessments.

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Sponsor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Utredare

  • Huvudutredare: Jin H Han, MD, MSc, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Studieavstämningsdatum

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Studera stora datum

Studiestart

1 juli 2009

Primärt slutförande (Faktisk)

1 februari 2012

Avslutad studie (Faktisk)

1 februari 2012

Studieregistreringsdatum

Först inskickad

12 juli 2010

Först inskickad som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna

13 juli 2010

Första postat (Uppskatta)

14 juli 2010

Uppdateringar av studier

Senaste uppdatering publicerad (Faktisk)

3 maj 2018

Senaste inskickade uppdateringen som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna

1 maj 2018

Senast verifierad

1 maj 2018

Mer information

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Nyckelord

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Andra studie-ID-nummer

  • 081408

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