Observational studyBMC anesthesiology2022
Delirium risk factors in hospitalized patient: a comprehensive evaluation of underlying diseases and medications in different wards of a large Urban Hospital Center in Iran.
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- Factors predicting delirium among hospitalized older adults in an urban area, Thailand: A prospective cohort study.Belitung nursing journal · 2025Article
- The Relationship between Delirium and Dementia.Seminars in neurology · 2024Review
- Systemic inflammation and delirium during critical illness.Intensive care medicine · 2024Article
- The 4AT scale for rapid detection of delirium in emergency department triage.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Pathogens Isolated from Patients with Wound Infection at a Teaching Hospital in Vietnam.Infection and drug resistance · 2024Article
- Potentially inappropriate medications with older people in intensive care and associated factors: a historic cohort study.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundDelirium is a neurobehavioral syndrome, which is characterized by a fluctuation of mental status, disorientation, confusion and inappropriate behavior, and it is prevalent among hospitalized patients. Recognizing modifiable risk factors of delirium is the key point for improving our preventive strategies and restraining its devastating consequences. This study aimed to identify and investigate various factors predisposing hospitalized patients to develop delirium, focusing mostly on underlying diseases and medications.
methodIn a prospective, observational trial, we investigated 220 patients who had been admitted to the internal, emergency, surgery and hematology-oncology departments. We employed the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) questionnaire, The Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS), the General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG), demographic questionnaire, patient interviews and medical records. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to analyze the predictive value of medications and underlying diseases for daily transition to delirium.; demographics were analyzed using univariate analysis to identify those independently associated with delirium.
resultsTwo hundred twenty patients were enrolled; the emergency department had the most incident delirium (31.3%), and the surgery section had the least (2.4%); delirium was significantly correlated with older ages and sleep disturbance. Among multiple underlying diseases and the medications evaluated in this study, we found that a history of dementia, neurological diseases and malignancies increases the odds of transition to delirium and the use of anticoagulants decreases the incident delirium.
conclusionApproximately 1 out of 10 overall patients developed delirium; It is important to evaluate underlying diseases and medications more thoroughly in hospitalized patients to assess the risk of delirium.
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