By David Wild
New Orleans—A multidisciplinary initiative including pharmacists reduced rates of nosocomial delirium by 37%, largely by minimizing the use of high-risk delirium-causing medications.
The initiative, which garnered a 2015 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ ASHP Foundation Award for Excellence in Medication-Use Safety, combined clinical decision support (CDS) alerts, pharmacist interventions and revised order sets to clamp down on overuse of