Table 2.

Summary of delirium clinical practice guidelines published (1) between 2003 and 2007 (2) before 2003

Delirium guideline name	Guideline development Group	Year	Country	Language	Database source	Target patient population
Delirium: Guidelines for general hospitals55	The Delirium Guidelines Development Group ‘A multidisciplinary expert panel’	2007	Switzerland	English	Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO	Adult patients in general hospitals
Clinical practice guidelines for the management of delirium in older people56	Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Melbourne Health in collaboration with the Delirium Clinical Guidelines Expert Working Group	2006	Australia	English	Grey literature	Older people receiving care (in hospital, community and residential care settings) aged ≥65 years, or ≥45 years in the case of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
National guidelines for seniors’ mental health: The assessment and treatment of delirium57	Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH)	2006	Canada	English/French	Grey literature	Older adults ≥65 years, all healthcare settings
Symptom Guidelines: Delirium/Restlessness58	Hospice Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guideline Committee, Fraser Health	2006	Canada	English	Grey literature	Adult patients ≥19 years living with advanced life-threatening illness
Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and management of delirium in older people. Concise guidance to good practice series, No 659	Guideline Development Group: British Geriatrics Society and Royal College of Physicians	2006	UK	English	Hand search	Older people in hospital and community care settings
Detection, prevention and treatment of delirium in critically ill patients60	UK Clinical Pharmacy Association	2006	UK	English	Hand search	Critically ill patients
(Guideline: Delirium)61	Dutch Psychiatric Association. van der Mast RC et al	2005	Netherlands	Dutch	Medline, EMBASE	Not known due to language restriction
Clinical practice guidelines for the sustained use of sedatives and analgesics in the critically ill adult62	Sedation and Analgesia Taskforce, Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists	2002	USA	English	EMBASE	Critically ill adults
Clinical practice guideline: Delirium in the elderly63	Fraser Health Authority	2002	Canada	English	Grey literature	Elderly patients with delirium
Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with delirium64	American Psychiatric Association	1999	USA	English	Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Grey literature	Patients with delirium