Brich, Jochen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6325-1892
Baten, Verena
Wußmann, Judith
Heupel-Reuter, Miriam
Perlov, Evgeniy
Klöppel, Stefan
Busch, Hans-Jörg
Article History
Received: 9 August 2018
Accepted: 20 November 2018
First Online: 27 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the Local Ethics Committee (No. 72/16). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: If possible, oral informed consent was obtained directly from the patient or an authorized proxy. According to our local ethics committee written or verbal consent from the patients was not required as this was an evaluation-based study aiming for permanent implementation of the Nu-DESC for delirium screening in the ED. In order to ensure the best treatment for all patients, EPs were informed about the criterion standard diagnosis subsequent to the completion of all tests.