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866 studies tagged delirium, dated 1963-09-21 to 2026-09-04. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)
Newest in this topic
- Secondary causes among adult patients presenting with first-episode psychosis to acute medical settings in Hong Kong: A 10-Year retrospective study 2026-09-04
- Aspirin and healthy longevity within racial and ethnic minoritized older adults in the United States 2026-08-27
- Baseline Statin Exposure and Incident Acute Myocardial Infarction in Adults Aged >=75 Years Without Prior Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study 2026-08-25
Studies
866 studies carry this tag.
Date range
1963 to 2026
Top journals
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65
- JAMA 24
- Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 22
- Journal of pain and symptom management 20
- Palliative medicine 19
387 journals in all.
Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.
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Main results Two RCTs and one controlled before-and-after study were included (735 participants).
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Diagnosis frequency ranged across HRRs from 0.58 chronic conditions in Grand Junction, Colorado, to 1.23 in Miami, Florida (mean, 0.90 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 0.89-0.91]; median, 0.87 [interquartile range, 0.80-0.96]).
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Patients with osteoarthritis had excess all cause mortality compared with the general population (standardised mortality ratio 1.55, 95% confidence interval 1.41 to 1.70).
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Prolonged delirium was found to be associated with a poor functional outcome and increased mortality.
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51/100
Among patients with ischemic stroke, factors identifiable within hours of hospital presentation predicted mortality risk at 30 days and 1 year.
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Compared with nonprofit hospice agencies, for-profit hospice agencies had a higher percentage of patients with diagnoses associated with lower-skilled needs and longer lengths of stay.
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It was hypothesized that race or ethnicity, social support, and functional status are independently associated with treatment intensity and controlling for regional characteristics, and that individual characteristics account for a substantial proportion of expenditure variation.
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Delirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome with generalized cognitive impairment and disproportionate inattention.
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A common but significant change associated with aging is a profound disruption to the daily sleep-wake cycle.
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with a high rate of developing serious medical comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, dementia, osteoporosis, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome.
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In most of these nonacademic healthcare delivery systems, traditional randomized clinical trial designs to evaluate effectiveness are too rigid, too expensive, and take too long to achieve results.
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The ongoing development of robotics on the one hand and, on the other hand, the foreseen relative growth in number of elderly individuals suffering from dementia, raises the question of which contribution robotics could have to rationalize and maintain, or even improve the quality of care.
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All low-income countries and 59% of the middle-income countries in our sample were found to have far fewer professionals than they need to deliver a core set of mental health interventions.
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The goals of palliative care address critical issues for individuals with complex and serious illness residing in nursing homes, including pain and symptom management, communication, preparation for death, decisions about treatment preferences, and caregiver support.
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Seriously ill, older adults in an urban ED have substantial palliative care needs.
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A high level of drug utilization, influenced by the characteristics of residents and the institution, was observed in Belgian nursing homes.
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The results in this study demonstrated that the Zarit Burden Interview is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring the burden of caregivers of PWD in Singapore.
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This pilot study examined whether an interactive, computer based decision aid can help patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) engage in effective advance care planning.
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Severe psoriasis is associated with an increased risk of death from a variety of causes, with cardiovascular death being the most common aetiology.
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Older patients account for up to a quarter of all emergency department (ED) visits.
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Delirium affects 60 to 80% of ventilated patients and is associated with worse clinical outcomes including death.
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Cognitive impairment is an independent predictor of mortality in dialysis patients.
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With the upcoming reform of the healthcare system and the greater emphasis on care in the home and other living environments, geriatric providers will need alternate ways of monitoring disease, activity, response to therapy, and patient safety.
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Evidence suggests that delirium is associated with long-term poor outcome but delirium often occurs in individuals with more severe underlying disease.
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Community-dwelling elders' preferences for end-of-life care are not consistent with documentation in their medical records.
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In this sample of older individuals, a higher dropout rate occurred in those assigned to the high-technology assessment techniques; however, once participants had completed baseline in all 3 arms, they continued participation through 1 month.
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The BFC80+ was designed to acquire a better understanding of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of chronic diseases in the very elderly and to study the dynamic interaction between health, frailty and disability in a multi-system approach.
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Dementia, depression and anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders among older adults in LTC.
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Most decline occurred prior to hospitalization and was associated with common indicators of poor outcomes in hospitalized elders.
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Sixty-six studies met inclusion criteria for the relationship between physical activity and functional independence, and 34 were included with a cognitive function outcome.
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All six short-form ZBI have very good validity, internal consistency, and discriminative ability.
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Study objective Delirium's adverse effect on long-term mortality in older hospitalized patients is well documented, whereas its effect in older emergency department (ED) patients remains unclear.
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Of enrollees, 15.9% entered the gap, 2.6% within the first 180 days; among gap enterers, only 6.7% exited again.
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Those who reached the DBT in both years had higher morbidity and utilization.
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Frailty is a risk for postoperative complications and an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality, institutional discharge, and reduced midterm survival.
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Preliminary findings suggest that some factors may identify those at risk for persistent delirium; however, more research is needed.
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Social, psychological, and psychiatric characteristics were compared in suicide attempters (70 years and older) and a representative population sample.
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The overall 1-year recurrent stroke rate was 9.4% among 895,916 ischemic stroke patients (mean age: 78 years; 56.6% women; 86.6% White, 9.7% Black and 1.2% Latino/Hispanic).
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More than two-thirds of long-stay nursing home residents suffer from dementia.
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The use of light propofol sedation decreased the prevalence of postoperative delirium by 50% compared with deep sedation.
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The NH culture influences the approach to feeding in advanced cognitive impairment, whether by hand or placement of a feeding tube.
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Functional and cognitive impairments were markedly higher for those who died aged 90 and older- predominantly women-than for those who died aged 85 to 89.
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This large cohort of 85 year olds showed good levels of both self rated health and functional ability despite significant levels of disease and impairment.
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An integrated 6-mo prognostic tool was developed and validated for the HD population.
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This study provides a systematic review of predictors of NHP in the general population of developed countries.
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The application of medical technology to prolong life at the expense of quality of life is widely debated in end-of-life care.
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Comanagement by geriatricians and orthopedic surgeons, combined with standardized care, leads to improved processes and outcomes for patients with hip fractures.
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The aim of this study was twofold: to compare the functional levels of elderly awaiting nursing home placement and nursing home residents, and to compare their nurses' physical and psychological workloads.
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In these older adults, associations of risk factors with a given cause of death were related to specific deficits in that same organ system.
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The aging of the U.S. population has resulted in a large number of persons with multiple, chronic illnesses and gradual functional decline.
From across this tag
8 of the 862 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 8. The same 8 appear here every time.
- Widening rural-urban disparities in all-cause mortality and mortality from major causes of death in the USA, 1969-2009
- Deconstructing Heart Failure Disease Management
- A systematic review of risk factors for delirium in the ICU
- Palliative care during the final week of life of older people in nursing homes: A register-based study
- Default Palliative Care Consultation for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial
- Improved exercise tolerance and quality of life with cardiac rehabilitation of older patients after myocardial infarction: results of a randomized, controlled trial
- Incidence and Risk Factors of Delirium in COPD Patient in Intensive Care Unit
- Comorbidity as a driver of adverse outcomes in people with chronic kidney disease