Comparative salary-related costs of a brief app-directed delirium identification protocol by hospitalists, nurses, and nursing assistants.

Douglas L LeslieDonna Marie FickAmber MooreSharon K InouyeYoojin JungLong H NgoMarie BoltzErica HusserPriyanka ShresthaMalaz BoustaniEdward R Marcantonio

Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2022)

CNAs and nurses had the lowest salary-associated costs for app-directed CAM-based delirium screening and identification, respectively. Salary-related annual hospital costs for the most efficient protocols in a medium-sized hospital were less than the annual cost of hiring 1 FTE of the discipline performing the protocols.

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