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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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ACP practices are evolving.
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Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a significant public health problem with high mortality and morbidity.
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Attrition was most likely to occur in participants who were older, male, inactive, socially isolated, and cognitively impaired.
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After backward stepwise selection in year 0, the following factors were associated with increased risk of death by more than 10%: being hospitalized; having congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or dementia; having moderate to high pain; having worse well-being; having functional status in the transitional or end-of-life phase; having any problems with appetite; receiving end-of-life home care; and living in a nursing home.
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The incidence and prevalence of delirium in hospitals appears to be stable, though publication bias may have masked true changes.
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The findings of this study suggest that concurrent with new initiatives aimed at reducing hospitalizations, hospital transfers declined between 2011 and 2017 among nursing home residents with advanced illnesses without increased mortality rates.
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The ZBI-7 is a valid instrument for measuring caregiver burden in PC.
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We present a range of trigger tools spanning different hospital settings and patient populations.
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This review of reviews provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of epidemiological evidence from previously conducted research to assess the associations of physical activity with physical and mental health outcomes in older adults.
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Concerning deceased residents, we collected 551 of 610 questionnaires from staff at baseline and 984 of 1178 postintervention in 37 intervention and 36 control homes.
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Recording of a palliative care approach for non-cancer conditions has increased since the introduction of the UK End-of-Life Care Strategy, but remains inadequate.
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In fact, average benefits are considered modest compared with the benefits of other developed countries.
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Extrapolating results to the US population, we estimate that annually nearly a million individuals who are likely eligible for hospice die without its services.
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Multimorbidity (hazard ratio [HR] 4·12 [95% CI 3·41-4·98]), frailty (HR 2·38 [95% CI 1·93-2·93]), and disability (HR 1·73 [95% CI 1·34-2·22]) were associated with increased risk of mortality; these associations were not modified by socioeconomic status.
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Drugs with anticholinergic action are widely prescribed in the elderly population due to their potential clinical benefits.
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Delayed discharge is associated with higher hospital costs and complication rates especially nosocomial infections.
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A cohort of 4 522 160 US veterans (4 243 462 [93.8%] male; median [interquartile range] age, 64.1 [55.7-75.5] years; 3 702 942 [82.0%] white, 667 550 [14.8%] black, and 145 593 [3.2%] other race) was followed up for a median (interquartile range) of 10.0 (6.8-10.2) years.
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The effect of austerity and associated budgets are strong contenders,3Ruckert A Labonté R Health inequities in the age of austerity: the need for social protection policies.
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The geriatrician can have an important role in decisions for non-surgical management by shared decision making in the pre-operative period in patients ≥ 70 years with a hip fracture in the emergency room.
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Although a high proportion of patients received elements of palliative care, transitions to a goal of comfort or hospice happened very near death.
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Over a median of 18 years, 1180 former soccer players (15.4%) and 3807 controls (16.5%) died.
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As our population ages, therapies increase, and the number of individuals living with advanced PD and related disorders grows, so too does the imperative to recognize and address the palliative care needs of such patients and families.
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The observed misalignment of opinion between end users and developers on desirable design features of companion robots demonstrates the need for user-centred design during development.
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Neurological illnesses, including cognitive impairment, memory decline and dementia, affect over 50 million people worldwide, imposing a substantial burden on individuals and society.
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There were 75 subjects in the pilot. The patients were aged 65 (56-73.5) years, and 39% (29/75) resided in rural areas.
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We identified a consensus definition for serious illness in surgery.
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Depression predisposes to medical illnesses and advances biological aging indicated by shorter telomere length, accelerated brain aging and advanced epigenetic aging.
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The APOE-ε4 allele has long been associated with increased risks of Alzheimer's disease and mortality, but the effect of the less prevalent APOE-ε2 allele on diseases in the elderly and survival remains elusive.
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In 2017, the United Nations reported that the world's population aged 60 years and over was 962 million people, over twice as many older persons than was reported in 1980.
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Further studies should bridge the gap in understanding and give a more global portrait by adding important personal variables such as dementia, organizational variables such as use of community and primary care, and contextual variables such as social and economic frailty.
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For the last 17 years, an increase of mortality for patients with hip fracture and a higher mortality rate in men than in women were observed.
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The benefits of expanding funding for Medicaid long-term care home and community-based services (HCBS) relative to institutional care are often taken as self-evident.
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The late initiation of palliative care (especially when advance care planning is lacking) and palliative care for residents without cancer, dementia or closely involved relatives deserve attention in all countries.
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Fifty-one studies from 16 States of India were included as 56 datasets, which estimated the prevalence of depression among Indian elderly population as 34.4% (95% CI: 29.3-39.7).
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In community-dwelling older persons, the combination of a long-term lifestyle MI and omega-3 supplementation did not reduce frailty level or incidence.
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Evaluation of each patient using a variety of decision making tools should help the orthopedic surgeon determine which patients would be better suited to non-operative management.
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Subjective caregiver burden is a significant risk factor for depressive symptoms in carers of older people and may precipitate clinical depression.
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By 2060, an estimated 48 million people (47% of all deaths globally) will die with serious health-related suffering, which represents an 87% increase from 26 million people in 2016. 83% of these deaths will occur in low-income and middle-income countries.
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Caregiving intensity is related to health for non-Latino White CGs and African American dementia CGs.
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Chronic pain is highly prevalent among older adults where it is associated with significant suffering, disability, social isolation, and greater costs and burden to health care systems.
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Four tools demonstrated some promise, but no single tool was consistent across all psychometric properties assessed.
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This study consolidates evidence that commonly used signs and symptoms of dehydration lack even basic levels of diagnostic accuracy in older adults, implying that many who are dehydrated are not being identified, thus compromising their health and well-being.
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The findings demonstrate five central negative conditions of precarity that older people had to manage: (a) loss and discontinuity of home-based healthcare services, (b) stress after loss or disruption of social support, (c) problems of poverty, (d) cognitive impairment and declining health and (e) stress of eviction.
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The study cohort included 568 patients (289 [50.9%] men; mean [SD] age, 70.5 [16.1] years) who died in the hospital or were discharged to hospice.
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Emergency department (ED)-initiated palliative care has been shown to improve patient-centred outcomes in older adults with serious, life-limiting illnesses.
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The study enrolled 181 participants (mean [SD] age, 69.6 [7.2] years; 114 [63.0%] female): 91 to the intervention arm (depression in later life [DIL] intervention) and 90 to care as usual (CAU).
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The studies indicated the importance of funding, provision and organization of services/personnel, education, and cooperation among different support systems.
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Inpatient PCC reduces 30-day readmissions and inpatient mortality with the greatest impact demonstrated within six days of hospital admission.
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Across New England stakeholders are promoting healthy aging by building age-friendly communities (healthyagingdatareports.org).
From across this tag
10 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 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- Entering and Exiting the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Role of Comorbidities and Demographics
- Physical inactivity and non-communicable disease burden in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries
- PROFILE OF DECEDENTS FROM A NATIONAL COHORT OF ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENTS
- Predictors of nursing facility admission: a 12-year epidemiological study in the United States
- Health span approximates life span among many supercentenarians: compression of morbidity at the approximate limit of life span
- Hypertension in the elderly
- Lung ultrasound (LUS) as a predictor of delirium in elderly patients with COVID-19 during hospitalization: A geriatric vulnerability-stress model
- Preexisting Comorbidities Predicting COVID-19 and Mortality in the UK Biobank Community Cohort
- Machine-learning-based COVID-19 mortality prediction model and identification of patients at low and high risk of dying
- Dermatological Problems and Treatment in Long-Term/Nursing-Home Care