Background Delirium is a common mental disorder, which is distressing and has serious
adverse outcomes in hospitalised patients. Prevention of delirium is desirable from the …

Background and aims: The IQCODE is widely used as a screening test for dementia,
particularly where the subject is unable to undergo direct cognitive testing or for screening in …

Importance Delirium, an acute disorder with high morbidity and mortality, is often
preventable through multicomponent nonpharmacological strategies. The efficacy of these …

Delirium in a patient with preexisting dementia is a common problem that may have serious
complications and poor prognostic implications. The purpose of this paper was to conduct a …

Background: Delirium occurs commonly in hospitalized older patients but is poorly
recognized. Although there are a plethora of validated delirium screening tools, it is unclear …

Few ill health situations are more degrading to people of any age than loss of reasoning,
faculties, and personhood. These are the unpleasant consequences of delirium—a common …

Delirium is a mental disorder characterized by disturbances in consciousness, orientation,
memory, thought, perception, and behavior, of acute onset and fluctuating course. It occurs …

Objectives: To investigate whether an education program and a reorganization of nursing
and medical care improved the outcome for older delirious patients. Design: Prospective …

Delirium is a common neurobehavioral syndrome that occurs across health care settings
which is associated with adverse outcomes, including death. There are limited data on long …

Background: one explanation for the poor prognosis of delirium among older hospital
patients may be that many of these patients do not recover from delirium. We sought to …