The Dlin/Fischer Clinical Research Award—awarded for significant achievement in clinical research and the highest-scoring oral paper submitted for presentation at the annual meeting—has been won by José Maldonado, MD, FACLP, FACFE.
Dr. Maldonado, et al., Critical Care Psychiatry Service, Division of Medical Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, authored Assessing the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Stanford Proxy Test for Delirium (S-PTD) in a Critically Ill Population.
Their goal was to assess the accuracy of their proxy test against the most widely-used delirium detection tool in intensive care units, the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU, then to compare the performance of both tools against a DSM-5 based neuropsychiatric assessment.
The Stamford tool demonstrated superior sensitivity regardless of phenotype—crucial in detecting delirium.
See ACLP News, December, for the full comparison.