Validation of the delirium diagnostic tool-provisional (DDT-Pro) in geriatric medical inpatients with diagnostic permutations of the 3Ds with and without delirium.

María Botero UrreaMaria Carolina GonzálezMaría Margarita Villa GarcíaMarcela Alviz NúñezJuan D Velásquez-TiradoMaría V OcampoPaula T TrzepaczJosé G Franco

Published in: Journal of psychosomatic research (2024)

The DDT-Pro demonstrated strong performance metrics in general hospital elderly inpatients with preexisting depression and/or dementia, which is unique among brief delirium tools. Its optimized cutoff score was the same as in other populations.

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