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Delirium and Mortality in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) - A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mortality Risk Following Delirium in Older Inpatients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Worldviews on evidence-based nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Endotheliopathy marked by high von Willebrand factor (vWF) antigen in COVID-19 is associated with poor outcome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-IV) inhibitor was associated with mortality reduction in COVID-19 - A systematic review and meta-analysis.Primary care diabetes · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of colchicine on mortality in patients with COVID-19 - A systematic review and meta-analysis.Diabetes & metabolic syndrome · 2022Pooled it
- Active prescription of low-dose aspirin during or prior to hospitalization and mortality in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis of adjusted effect estimates.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Ivermectin and mortality in patients with COVID-19: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials.Diabetes & metabolic syndromePooled it
- COVID-19 delirium versus non-COVID-19 delirium in Iran: a computational approach.Acute and critical care · 2025Article
- Research progress on the interaction between multiple organ-brain axes and perioperative neurocognitive disorders: a narrative review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Review
- Evaluation of Delirium Risk Factors in Intensive Care Patients.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2024Article
- Exploration of the factors affecting different delirium subtypes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a multicentre cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Associations Between COVID-19, Delirium, and 1-Year Mortality: Exploring Influences on Delirium Incidence in COVID-19 Patients.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
- Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital with and without respiratory symptoms.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Atypical Presentation of COVID-19 in Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Portuguese journal of public health · 2023Article
- Delirium and IL-6 added to clinical scores improves their performance: a prospective analysis of CALL, PREDI-CO, MRS score applied to a population of patients admitted to internal medicine ward.Internal and emergency medicine · 2023Article
- The association between mean platelet volume and poor outcome in patients with COVID-19: Systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2023Article
- Delirium in Medically Hospitalized Patients: Prevalence, Recognition and Risk Factors: A Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Comparative features and outcomes of major neurological complications of COVID-19.European journal of neurology · 2023Article
- Association between COVID-19 and Postoperative Neurological Complications and Antipsychotic Medication Use after Cancer Surgery: A Retrospective Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Dementia and psychotropic medications are associated with significantly higher mortality in geriatric patients hospitalized with COVID-19: data from the StockholmGeroCovid project.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2023Observational
- Relationship Among Clinically Obtained Biomarkers of Inflammation, Hypercoagulability, and Macrophage Activation, and Delirium in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19.Critical care explorations · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionOlder adults are indisputably struck hard by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The main objective of this meta-analysis is to establish the association between delirium and mortality in older adults with COVID-19.
methodsSystematic literature searches of PubMed, Embase, and Scopus databases were performed up until 28 November 2020. The exposure in this study was the diagnosis of delirium using clinically validated criteria. Delirium might be in-hospital, at admission, or both. The main outcome was mortality defined as clinically validated non-survivor/death. The effect estimates were reported as odds ratios (ORs) and adjusted odds ratios (aORs).
resultsA total of 3,868 patients from 9 studies were included in this systematic review and meta-analysis. The percentage of patients with delirium was 27% [20%, 34%]. Every 1 mg/L increase in CRP was significantly associated with 1% increased delirium risk (OR 1.01 [1.00. 1.02], p=0.033). Delirium was associated with mortality (OR 2.39 [1.64, 3.49], p<0.001; I
conclusionThe presence of delirium is associated with increased risk of mortality in hospitalized older adults with COVID-19.
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