Section Six

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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Delirium Awareness Podcast

To consolidate your learning on delirium, please listen to our delirium awareness audio podcast.  The audio podcast was co-designed and recorded with students from nursing, pharmacy and medicine to illuminate the key components of multidisciplinary delirium care.  This short podcast will recap key learning from this e-resource.  We hope you enjoy it.

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Additional Materials

If you want to find out more about delirium, please click on any of the items below. All links provide high quality, freely accessible evidence that has been reviewed by the project team. We hope you find these useful.

  1. Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management in hospital and long-term care. NICE Clinical Guideline.  (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg103)  
  2. Patients’ experiences of delirium: A systematic review and meta-summary of qualitative research. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jan.14865)
  3. The experience of delirium in palliative care settings for patients, family, clinicians and volunteers: A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis. (Hyperlink to here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02692163211006313
  4. Non‐pharmacological interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised non‐ICU patients: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013307.pub2/full
  5. Delirium (Nature Reviews Disease Primers): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-020-00223-4
  6. Spot the Delirium Difference Poster: https://www.combined.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Spot-the-difference-pdf-trust.pdf
  7. Early Identification and Management of Delirium in the Emergency Department/ Acute Medical Assessment Unit: https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/clinical-strategy-and-programmes/delirium-ed-amau-algorithm-.pdf
  8. Delirium Guidance (British Geriatrics Society): https://www.bgs.org.uk/topics/delirium
  9. European Delirium Association: https://www.europeandeliriumassociation.org/
  10. Delirium Journal (Open Access): https://deliriumjournal.com/
  11. Delirium Communications Journal (Open Access): https://deliriumcommunicationsjournal.com/
  12. 4AT Rapid Clinical Test for Delirium: https://www.the4at.com/
  13. World Delirium Day: https://www.deliriumday.com/
  14. Delirium Information for Patients and Relatives: https://www.publichealth.hscni.net/publications/delirium-information-patients-and-relatives

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