Quantifying the Severity of a Delirium Episode Throughout Hospitalization: the Combined Importance of Intensity and Duration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ability to determine which episodes of delirium are likely to lead to poor clinical outcomes has remained a major area of challenge.

Objective

To quantify delirium severity and course over an entire hospitalization using several measures, and to evaluate their predictive validity for 30- and 90-day outcomes post-discharge.

Design

Two prospective cohort studies.

Participants

Analysis was conducted in two independent cohorts of adult patients aged ≥70.

Main measures

Nine delirium episode severity measures were examined: (1) measures reflecting delirium intensity (peak Confusion Assessment Method-Severity [CAM-S] and mean CAM-S score), (2) a measure reflecting delirium intensity and duration (sum of all CAM-S scores, sum of all CAM-S scores o

SUBMITTER: Vasunilashorn SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5023588 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature