Detecting Incident Delirium within Routinely Collected Inpatient Rehabilitation Data: Validation of a Chart-Based Method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delirium is a brain condition associated with poor outcomes in rehabilitation. It is therefore important to assess delirium incidence in rehabilitation.

Purpose

To develop and validate a chart-based method to identify incident delirium episodes within the electronic database of a Swiss rehabilitation clinic, and to identify a study population of validated incident delirium episodes for further research purposes.

Design

Retrospective validation study.

Settings

Routinely collected inpatient clinical data from ZURZACH Care.

Participants

All patients undergoing rehabilitation at ZURZACH Care, Rehaklinik Bad Zurzach between 2015 and 2018 were included.

Methods

Within the study population, we identified all rehabilitation stays for which ≥2 d

SUBMITTER: Ceppi MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8705493 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature