NOVAD-Hospital: Neurological Orientation and Verbal Assessment of Delirium-Hospital
2025An electronic clinical-decision-support algorithm that uses routinely recorded neurological, orientation and verbal assessments to flag possible delirium. It is record-based rather than a separately administered bedside form.
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This record describes a method rather than a downloadable bedside form. The main source is linked below.
Original paper and official source
- Principal sourceHendrie K, Rangan P, Agarwal SK, Pagali S, Khan B, Kidwai S, et al. Neurological Orientation and Verbal Assessment of Delirium-Hospital Clinical Decision Support Tool. Journal of medical systems. 2025;49(1):62. doi: 10.1007/s10916-025-02195-y. PMID: 40358826.
This is the principal published source for NOVAD-Hospital. It is the main source for the method, its intended use and the evidence available at publication.
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At a glance
- Purpose
- Episodic assessment
- Population
- Hospitalised adults with electronic nursing-assessment data
- Setting
- General / acute hospital
- Time
- automated from existing electronic-record inputs
Evidence
Evidence maturityNo eligible DTA study identified
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Neurological Orientation and Verbal Assessment of Delirium-Hospital
- Evidence summary
- single-DTA
- Citation
- Hendrie K, Rangan P, Agarwal SK, Pagali S, Khan B, Kidwai S, Agarwal N Neurological Orientation and Verbal Assessment of Delirium-Hospital Clinical Decision Support Tool Journal of Medical Systems. 2025;49(1):62. PMID 40358826
Copyright and reuse
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- EMR clinical decision-support implementation reported in 2025
- Information checked
- 2026-07-19
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