New waves of delirium understanding

Delirium

“…Despite being described in Roman times, delirium has received little attention until the past three to four decades 12,13 . Although funding for delirium research and public awareness of this condition have increased, they still lag far behind other important public health-care issues 14 .…”

Developing delirium best practice: a systematic review of education interventions for healthcare professionals working in inpatient settings

“…Delirium is an under recognised, common, highly distressing and costly illness. Education therefore holds much promise in addressing the fact that it remains invisible in hospital settings (77). This review provides robust evidence that educational approaches from across the continuum can improve outcomes at learner and patient levels.…”

Expansive learning in medical education: Putting Change Laboratory to work

“…Despite being rooted in theories of Vygotsky and Leont'ev from the early 20 th Century, CHAT is highly relevant to problems in 21 st century practice, whose complexity lends itself poorly to care processes that are rooted in historically-set divisions of labour. Change Laboratory offers a new way of conducting the shared redesign and reworking of complex care systems, which may otherwise be defeated by complexities of systems that prevent education translating into improved patient outcomes (see Teodorczuk and MacLullich 2018). It can be hard, at first, to understand the conceptual and methodological tools of CHAT, which require clinical educators to rethink, radically, the relationship between learning and system development.…”