Documents
Here are files you can use for and during the WDAD study.
FILES OF 2024/2025
Delirium Success Story
In short: we will perform an open online Survey and include persons with delirium experiences, families, and health care workers sharing their delirium success story, e.g. a successful implementation project, positive experiences in the hospital, new approaches to support, positive support by others, or else. We exclude in-patients.
We will start on next WDAD March 12th 2025
- Study Proposal 1.4, Aug 26th 2024, in English pdf, in Norwegian (H. Woien, Oct. 8th 2024) as pdf,
- Ethic Approval in English (Germany, Aug 12th 2024, amendment Aug 30th 2024)
- The study is registered in the German Registry for Clinical Trials
- Call-for-participation slides in 11 languages as pdf
Cost Analysis
Information coming soon
FILES OF 2023
Advice (Update Jan 6th, 2023): In a worldwide study, it is not possible to be aware of all national laws and regulations. Hence, all national collaborators and participants are responsible to check their own local laws according to ethic approval, data protection or other related regulations.
Aim: (Update Jan 6th 2023): to evaluate service quality, to increase patients’ safety, and to assess the delirium practice; and second, to establish a collaboration network with quality improvement projects and re-evaluations.
Method: worldwide, cross sectoral prevalence study on March 15th, 2023. Attending clinicians will be surveyed for data of the structures of their hospitals/ICUs or units and performance of delirium related approach to inpatients. The primary outcome is the general prevalence of delirium in present patients at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on that day, and the practice of delirium assessment methods. Secondary outcome parameters are the use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, presence of protocols, interprofessional education, and others. Statistical analysis will be done for pediatric vs adult patients, conservative vs surgical wards vs Intensive Care Units, high vs low leveled income countries, and others.
Expected results: the survey will explore current practices of delirium management in institutions worldwide
- New: Proposal (Vers 1.3, incl. track changes with change of PI, and specified aims), and proposal in clean version
- New: Ethic approval in German for Vers. 1.3 incl. new PI and specified aims
- Ethic Approvals: From PI: Ethic approval (German), Ethic approval (English); from Germany (Bad Oeynhausen), India (Lucknow), from USA by H. Lindroth (application and approval), Australia (South Eastern Sydney) by G. Caplan, Spain by G. Heras (Madrid), Greece by M. Papankolaou (Athens), Ireland by S. Timmons (Cork), Italy by A. Morandi (approval), Austria by M. Hoffmann
- Data protection: approval from Germany (Mannheim),
- Data Collection Form (update Sept. 15th)
- New with update Jan 27th: Complete Survey as pdf (incl change of PI)
- New with update Jan 27th: Translation of the survey into Norwegian by H. Wøjen, Italian by G. Bellelli, A. Morandi and G. Imbriaco; Japanese by K. Liu, German by F. Schimböck, R v.Haken (Update 8.3.23), Spanish by G. Heras, Portuguese (Brazil) by RK Nawa, R Esteves, T Avelino, Portuguese (Portugal) by MC Paulino, Norwegian by H. Wojen, French by T. Mailhot
- New: Template for a permission to perform the study at your hospital (Word file, incl. changed PI)
- New: Template for a ethic committee (Word file, incl. changed PI)
- Template for recruitment (Word file)
- New: Registration in German Registry of Clinical Trials (Link) (pdf)
- New: the design as 1-pager (pdf)
(Documents will be updated frequently, last update August 9th 2024)