A quality improvement project to improve the identification and management of delirium.

Published in: Nursing in critical care (2020)

This project provides a useful framework to enable future quality improvement work around delirium and sedation management. The clinical pathway and sedation algorithm have been a useful tool to introduce to the unit as a way of formalizing the elements of delirium care and assessment.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
patient safety
cardiac surgery
hip fracture
machine learning
healthcare
mechanical ventilation
deep learning
palliative care
acute kidney injury
current status
intensive care unit