ReviewEuropean geriatric medicine2020
Delirium superimposed on dementia.
Review in European geriatric medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06683443 (Assessing the Effects of Robotic Pets on Patients With Dementia in the Acute Care Hospital Setting), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Assessing the Effects of Robotic Pets on Patients With Dementia in the Acute Care Hospital Setting
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- The role of diabetes mellitus on delirium onset: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025 · on this mapPooled it
- Delirium is a good predictor for poor outcomes from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Pooled it
- Knowledge translation for delirium superimposed on dementia care: a realist review.The Gerontologist · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of Music Therapy for Delirium in Acute Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Identification of correlative factors and development of a preliminary classification model for delirium superimposed on dementia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Mitochondrial transplantation for delirium superimposed on dementia: from pathogenic mechanisms to clinical translation challenges.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Review
- The Single Question in Delirium as a suitable tool to improve delirium detection in hospitalized older patients.European geriatric medicine · 2025Article
- Prioritizing delirium risk factors in nursing: a cross-sectional study using the analytic hierarchy process.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Factors associated with delirium in a real-world acute-care setting: analysis considering the interdependence of clinical variables with the frailty syndrome.European geriatric medicine · 2024Article
- Does the Etiology, Phenomenology and Motor Subtype of Delirium Differ When It Occurs in Patients With An Underlying Dementia?: A Multi-Site, International Study.Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · 2024Article
- Drug prescriptions in elderly hospitalized patients with cognitive impairment in the Italian Dementia Friendly Hospital project.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- [Delirium superimposed on dementia : Early detection and treatment].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2023Review
- Experiences of in-hospital care among dementia caregivers in the context of high neighborhood-level disadvantage.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- Association of drug burden index with delirium in community-dwelling older adults with dementia: a longitudinal observational study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2023Observational
- Contribution of Different Brain Disorders and Multimorbidity to Delirium Superimposed Dementia (DSD).Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The longitudinal patterns of psychotropic drug prescriptions for subpopulations of community-dwelling older people with dementia: electronic health records based retrospective study.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- The possible role of gut microbiota dysbiosis in the pathophysiology of delirium in older persons.Microbiome research reports · 2023Review
- Article
- Persistent delirium in older hospital patients: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Delirium (Bielefeld, Germany) · 2022Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeDelirium superimposed on dementia (DSD) is a frequent and growing emerging clinical challenge, given the increasing prevalence of dementia.
methodsThis narrative review focuses on and discusses the current knowledge on epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of DSD.
resultsThere is a close interaction between delirium and dementia since dementia is a risk factor for delirium and delirium is a known risk factor for newly developed dementia or worsening of dementia. The occurrence of DSD causes adverse clinical outcomes. However, DSD is often under-recognized or is frequently considered as the regular course of dementia. Indeed, especially in the advance stages of dementia, DSD diagnosis is challenging since a clear distinction between symptoms attributable to delirium and to dementia is difficult. Given the importance of DSD, it is essential to educate health care providers on the best approach for delirium management and treatment. It is now well recognized that delirium can be prevented using multicomponent interventions carried out by a multidisciplinary team targeting predisposing and precipitating risk factors for delirium. On the contrary, antipsychotics should only be used in patients with severe distressing symptoms and whose behavior means their safety or the safety of those around them is compromised, given the harmful of these medications in patients with pre-existing dementia.
conclusionsIt is essential to improve health care providers knowledge on DSD to improve the quality of care for an epidemiologically relevant though understudied population.
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