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Survival of Hospitalized Elderly Patients With Delirium: A Prospective Study
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Survival of Hospitalized Elderly Patients With Delirium: A Prospective Study

Kim J. Curyto, Jerry Johnson, Thomas TenHave, Jana Mossey, Kathryn Knott and Ira R. Katz
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry, v 9(2), pp 141-147
2001
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00019442-200105000-00006
PMID: 11316618
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Abstract

The authors tested the relationship between clinically diagnosed delirium during hospitalization and increased mortality after accounting for pre-hospital measures of global cognition, physical functioning, and medical comorbidity. Patients (N = 102), 53 of which were hospitalized during the course of a year, received the Mini-Mental State Exam, Physical Self-Maintenance Scale, Cumulative Illness Rating Scale, and 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale. Mortality rates were determined at discharge and after 3 years. Patients who developed delirium did not differ on pre-hospitalization levels of depression, global cognitive performance, physical functioning, or medical comorbidity. Three-year mortality in the hospitalized subjects was 75% for delirium patients vs. 51% for control patients (risk ratio = 2.24). Delirium occurring during hospitalization places elderly subjects at long-term risk of mortality. This effect is not accounted for by earlier measures of cognitive, functional, or health status.

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