... sarcopenia (SARC-F). The study grouped the patients into four clusters based on their scores on these tools and compared their outcomes after the surgery. The outcomes included overall survival, ambulation failure, delirium, and severe complications. The study also examined how each screening tool...

...Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn; Simon T. Dillon; Edward R. Marcantonio; Towia A. Libermann Delirium, an acute change in cognition, is common, morbid, and costly, particularly among hospitalized older adults. Despite growing knowledge of its epidemiology, far less is known about delirium...

... may help to balance and adjust policies accordingly or introduce further measures to mitigate their impact. We aimed to investigate the association of visitation restrictions with delirium incidence in stroke-unit patients. Methods: In a non-randomized observational design, data from 5,779 stroke-unit...

...Justus Marquetand; Leonie Bode; Simon Fuchs; Jutta Ernst; Roland von Känel; Sönke Boettger Background: Predisposing and precipitating factors for delirium for the elderly, over the age of 65 years, are known, but not for the very old, over 80 years. As the society is getting older and evermore...

..., procedures, and cohort for the Better ASsessment of ILlness -(BASIL) study, which is conducted to develop and test new delirium severity measures, compare them with existing measures, and examine related clinical outcomes. Methods: Prospective cohort study with 1 year follow-up of study participants...

...Susan Freter; Michael Dunbar; Katalin Koller; Chris MacKnight; Kenneth Rockwood Background: Delirium is a common complication of hip fracture and is associated with negative outcomes. Previous studies document risk factors for post-operative delirium but have frequently excluded patients with pre...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Inpatients, geriatric Dementia Delirium Dehydration Subcutaneous infusions G erontology Clinical Section Gerontology 1996;42:36-39 S.T. O Keeffea J.N. Lavanb a University Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Liverpool...

...S.T. O’Keeffe; W.P. Tormey; R. Glasgow; J.N. Lavan Necropsy studies suggest that thiamine deficiency is under-diagnosed in life, in part because the classical clinical presentations are uncommon. Anecdotal reports suggest that thiamine deficiency may contribute to the development of delirium, heart...

...Etienne Joosten; Joke Lemiengre; Tine Nelis; Geert Verbeke; Koen Milisen Background/Objective: Delirium is a common clinical problem in elderly patients. We aim to investigate whether anaemia is a risk factor for delirium in a hospitalized geriatric population. Methods: During a 5-month prospective...

...Yu-Tzu Dai; Meei-Fang Lou; Ping-Keung Yip; Guey-Shiun Huang Objectives: To investigate the incidence of postoperative delirium among elderly patients and to examine the interrelationship between basic vulnerability and precipitating factors for delirium. Design and Methods: This was a prospective...

... on because of acute hip fracture and 76 underwent elective hip-replacement surgery. ACS was diagnosed by the DSM-IV criteria for delirium. Structured observations of ACS onset were performed every 2nd to every 4th hour during the patients’ entire hospital stay. A protocol was used to document...

... of inpatients. Thiamine-deficient inpatients comprised a larger proportion of institutionalized subjects than nondeficient inpatients (87 versus 47%, p < 0.001). Functional status, cognitive functions and the occurrence of delirium did not differ according to their thiamine status. By contrast, thiamine...