European Delirium Association


The European Delirium Association was founded in 2006 in order to promote research, education and clinical practice in delirium. It serves as a forum to bring together interested researchers, practitioners and policy makers.
In 2006, the inaugural meeting brought together 50 delegates from the disciplines central to delirium including doctors, nurses, and psychologists working in geriatrics, psychiatry, palliative medicine, pediatrics, and neurology. The association has a broad remit, covering research, clinical practice, and promotion of better care through campaigning at local, national, and international levels. The annual scientific congress addresses a wide spectrum of issues including the latest developments in epidemiology, pathophysiology, phenomenology, treatment, and delirium advocacy.
In 2011, the European Delirium Association received the first Delirium Champion Award at the inaugural meeting of the American Delirium Society. Along with the American Delirium Society, the European Delirium Association has provided a framework for the interpretation of delirium diagnostic criteria.
The European Delirium Association provides research funding, and has been able to coordinate research across its network.

''Journals: Delirium'' and ''Delirium Communications''

Together with the Australasian Delirium Association and American Delirium Society, European Delirium Association publishes two open access journals Delirium and Delirium Communications. Each organisation contributes to the editorial board, led by Alasdair MacLullich of the University of Edinburgh.
Delirium aims to increase understanding of delirium through the dissemination of original research with the potential to change clinical practice and policy for the ultimate benefit of patients and their families. It publishes the highest-quality research across the entire range of delirium-related studies.
Delirium Communications provides an avenue for publishing any scientifically robust research focusing on delirium. It is committed to publishing any delirium-related work that meets methodological and ethical standards. Its ambition is to accelerate the scientific understanding of delirium by bringing together delirium-related research currently published in disparate fields and journals, increasing the volume of delirium-related publications whatever the editorial interest outside the field, and widely disseminate open access delirium research findings and related data.

Annual Scientific Congress