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Register for upcoming NIDUS webinars!
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 – 12:00-1:00pm ET
Biomarkers at the Interface of Delirium and DementiaTuesday, October 10, 2023 – 2:00-3:00pm ET
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Apply for a $40,000 NIDUS Pilot Award!
Two $40,000 pilot grants will be awarded for the 2024-2025 cycle
Letter of Intent (LOI) Submission Deadline: December 8, 2023 5:00pm EST
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Delirium Research Hub:
Submit an application for our Hub Challenge!
We are awarding one prize of $1000 to a researcher who can demonstrate creative use of the NIDUS Research Hub to foster collaboration and/or solve a problem in delirium research. We hope this prize can be used toward initiating or expanding their work. Submissions are due Friday, September 29th.
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NIDUS 2023 Boot Camp
Sunday, October 29 – Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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Visit Delirium Central
This website houses delirium resources for clinicians, researchers, patients, and family members, including all CAM instruments and training materials.
Welcome to NIDUS! Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists
NIDUS is a collaborative, multidisciplinary network dedicated to the acceleration of scientific discovery in delirium research, through focused collaboration and creation of sustainable infrastructure to enhance innovative and high-quality research. NIDUS was created in response to a call from the National Institutes on Aging to support a collaborative network to advance scientific research on the causes, mechanisms, outcomes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of delirium in older adults.
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Recent Blog Posts
Investigator of the Month (September 2023): Gideon Caplan, MD, FRACP
Dr Gideon Caplan is Director of Geriatric Medicine and Post-Acute Care Services at Prince of Wales Hospital, and he is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His research interests have focused on health services research as principal investigator on seven investigator-initiated RCTs, and on the pathophysiology of […]
Congratulations 2023 NIDUS Pilot Awardees!
Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s 2023 Pilot Awards: Laurie Lee, MN, NP; University of Calgary Shih-Yin Lin, PhD, MPH, MM; NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing Allyson Palmer, MD, PhD; Mayo Clinic These one year pilot grants provide $40,000 in funding for each investigator’s delirium research into priority areas. Pilot study results should […]
Update on the Ultra-Brief Confusion Assessment Method (UB-CAM)
Contributed by Edward R. Marcantonio MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and Donna M. Fick, RN, PhD, Director of the Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Penn State In 2020, we wrote a NIDUS blog introducing the Ultra-Brief Confusion Assessment Method (UB-CAM) 1, an ultra-brief, adaptive tool for assessing […]