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Selecting Optimal Screening Items for Delirium: An Application of Item Response Theory
(BioMed Central, 2013)
Background: Delirium (acute confusion), is a common, morbid, and costly complication of acute illness in older adults. Yet, researchers and clinicians lack short, efficient, and sensitive case identification tools for ...
Systemic Inflammation Impairs Attention and Cognitive Flexibility but Not Associative Learning in Aged Rats: Possible Implications for Delirium
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)
Delirium is a common and morbid condition in elderly hospitalized patients. Its pathophysiology is poorly understood but inflammation has been implicated based on a clinical association with systemic infection and surgery ...
The Successful Aging After Elective Surgery Study: Cohort Description and Data Quality Procedures
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Background/Objectives
Delirium is the most common complication of major elective surgery in older patients. The Successful Aging after Elective Surgery (SAGES) study was designed to examine novel risk factors and long-term ...
The Language of Delirium: Keywords for Identifying Delirium from Medical Records
(SLACK, Inc., 2015)
Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer the opportunity to streamline the search for patients with possible delirium. The purpose of the current study was to identify words and phrases commonly noted in charts of patients ...
Cognitive and Physical Demands of Activities of Daily Living In Older Adults: Validation of Expert Panel Ratings: The SAGES Functional Measures Working Group
(2015)
Background: Difficulties with performance of functional activities may result from cognitive and/or physical impairments. To date, there has not been a clear delineation of the physical and cognitive demands of activities ...
Delirium: An Independent Predictor of Functional Decline After Cardiac Surgery
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether patients who developed delirium after cardiac surgery were at risk of functional decline.
DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.
SETTING: Two academic hospitals and a Veterans Affairs ...
Aging, brain disease, and reserve: Implications for delirium
(2010)
Cognitive and brain reserve are well studied in the context of age-associated cognitive impairment and dementia. However, there is a paucity of research that examines the role of cognitive or brain reserve in delirium. ...
Derivation and Validation of a Preoperative Prediction Rule for Delirium After Cardiac Surgery
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2008)
Background— Delirium is a common outcome after cardiac surgery. Delirium prediction rules identify patients at risk for delirium who may benefit from targeted prevention strategies, early identification, and treatment of ...
Development of a unidimensional composite measure of neuropsychological functioning in older cardiac surgery patients with good measurement precision
(Informa UK Limited, 2010)
The objective of this analysis was to develop a measure of neuropsychological performance for cardiac surgery and to assess its psychometric properties. Older patients (n = 210) underwent a neuropsychological battery using ...
Persistent Delirium Predicts Greater Mortality
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between persistent delirium and 1-year mortality in newly admitted post-acute care (PAC) facility patients with delirium who were followed regardless of residence.
DESIGN: Observational ...