A multicentre, pragmatic, cluster randomised, controlled feasibility trial of the POD system of care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

to provide a preliminary estimate of the effectiveness of the prevention of delirium (POD) system of care in reducing incident delirium in acute hospital wards and gather data for a future definitive randomised controlled trial.

Design

cluster randomised and controlled feasibility trial.

Setting

sixteen acute care of older people and orthopaedic trauma wards in eight hospitals in England and Wales.

Participants

patients 65 years and over admitted to participating wards during the trial period.

Interventions

participating wards were randomly assigned to either the POD programme or usual care, determined by existing local policies and practices. The POD programme is a manualised multicomponent delirium prevention intervention that targets 10 risk

SUBMITTER: Young J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7331094 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature