Short Delirium Screening Tool Wins Morley Award

A research paper that describes a three-question screening tool for detecting delirium in patients with dementia has won JAMDA’s 2020 Morley Award for its potential to impact practice and policy in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Once validated, the screening tool could assist clinicians who practice in settings with a high prevalence of dementia to quickly exclude patients without delirium and to identify those who need further assessment, its authors say.