Occurrence and outcome of delirium in medical in-patients: a systematic literature review.

By N. Siddiqi, A. House, J. Holmes. Age and Ageing, 2006

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Subfields: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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• Validation of the 4AT, a new instrument for rapid delirium screening: a study in 234 hospitalised older people (2014, background): “The prevalence of delirium in this study was comparable with that reported in previous studies (10–31% in medical inpatients and 13% in post-acute care rehabilitation [2, 4]), albeit at the lower end of the spectrum for acute inpatients.”
• One-year health care costs associated with delirium in the elderly population. (2008, background): “D ELIRIUM, CHARACTERIZED as an acute decline in cognition and attention, represents a common and severe problem for hospitalized older patients, with occurrence rates from 14% to 56% and hospital mortality rates from 25% to 33%.(1,2) The development of delirium has been associated with increased mor”