Increasing the visibility of delirium as a hospital acquired complication: A consumer co-designed, nurse-led quality improvement program in a quaternary intensive care unit.
BACKGROUND Delirium is common in critically ill patients but is frequently under-recognised, inconsistently documented, and poorly explained to families. In our 48-bed intensive care unit (ICU), baseline chart review identified probable delirium in 65% of sampled admissions, yet the term "delirium" was documented in on...