Factors Influencing CAM-ICU Documentation and Inappropriate "Unable to Assess" Responses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Detecting delirium with standardized assessment tools such as the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) is important, but such detection is frequently hampered by poor documentation and inappropriate "unable to assess" responses (in noncomatose patients).

Objective

To identify patient, clinical, and workplace factors that may impede or facilitate appropriate delirium assessment through use of the CAM-ICU, specifically documentation and inappropriate "unable to assess" responses.

Methods

An electronic health record-based data set was used to quantify CAM-ICU documentation and inappropriate "unable to assess" responses during 24 months. Associated patient (eg, age), clinical (eg, diagnosis), and workplace (eg, geographic location w

SUBMITTER: Awan OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8901421 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature