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The natural history of delirium in older hospitalized patients
— a syndrome of heterogeneity | | Author(s) | Mark A Rudberg, Peter Pompei, Marquis D Foreman |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, no 3, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp 169-174 |
| Keywords | Confusion ; In-patients ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Participants in this United States survey of a hospital's inpatient surgical and medical wards were screened daily for confusion, using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) III-R criteria. The Delirium Rating Scale (DRS) was used to describe clinical characteristics of delirium. 15% of patients over 65 developed delirium during their hospital stay. Over two-thirds had delirium on a single day, but delirium may occur at any time during a hospital stay - with considerable variation in its presentation and time-course. The most common causes were medications, metabolic abnormality and infection. Clinicians and researchers need to consider the great heterogeneity of delirium in their studies and when caring for patients. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970905001 A |
| Classmark | EDC: LF7: 4C: 7T |
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