Innovative Approach to Measure Delirium in Hospitalized Older Adults Using the Electronic Health Record.

The article discusses research which was conducted to investigate the validity of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) delirium marker, a tool used to identify older patients with delirium. Researchers evaluated the tool with 92 older patients. They found that the tool was low in sensitivity and that it had limited use as a screening tool for delirium.