Capturing the ghost in the machine: a process for development and validation of measures of phenomenal consciousness in delirium.
Age and ageing July 2, 2024 Eamonn Eeles, David Duc Tran, Sarah Ward et al.
Delirium has conventionally been considered a disorder of consciousness. Alertness and arousal are used as surrogates in clinical practice but are insufficient for the purposes of a more dimensional assessment of consciousness. We present a process of development and validation of candidate measures of phenomenal consciousness that could be applied to the diagnosis of delirium. First, a...