{"id":64418,"date":"2023-03-08T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=64418"},"modified":"2023-08-17T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:06:52","slug":"dr-austin-receives-two-year-500k-grant-from-national-institute-of-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/dr-austin-receives-two-year-500k-grant-from-national-institute-of-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Austin Receives Two-Year, $500K Grant from National Institute of Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"
The overarching objective of this project is to develop and establish the diagnostic accuracy of a telemedicine- based delirium assessment tool, the TELE-CAM. Delirium, an acute change in cognition and attention is associated with a variety of undesirable outcomes including increased in-hospital mortality, long-term cognitive decline that mimics dementia, and increased risk for institutionalization. Delirium is prevalent in the post-operative population, and prevalence increases with age. Recent work performed by Dr. Austin and his research team demonstrated that many subjects were discharged home with active delirium.<\/p>\n Read More Here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Research reported in this\u00a0publication was supported by the National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of\u00a0Health under Award Number 1R21AG080331-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and\u00a0does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C. Adrian Austin, MD, MSCR, was awarded a two-year, $500K, grant from the National Institute of Aging for his project, “Development and Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy of a Telemedicine-Based Delirium Assessment Tool.” The overarching objective of this project is to develop and establish the diagnostic accuracy of a telemedicine- based delirium assessment tool, the TELE-CAM. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113418,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,2,102,92],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-64418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geriatric-medicine","category-news","category-pulmonary","category-research","tag-632","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>C. Adrian Austin, MD, MSCR<\/a>, was awarded a two-year, $500K, grant from the National Institute of Aging for his project, “Development and Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy of a Telemedicine-Based Delirium Assessment Tool.”<\/p>\n