The Prince Charles Hospital adopts support tool for determining delirium

Medical wards at The Prince Charles Hospital, a public hospital in Queensland, have recently trialled what may be the world’s first electronic tool for assessing the likely causes of delirium. 

According to Metro North Health, the electronic tool employs a series of yes/no questions that help narrow down causes to select groups such as infection, organ dysfunction, or drugs. It is built with algorithms that use “conventional principles,”…