Multicomponent Interventions for the Prevention of Delirium in Hospitalized Older People: A Meta-Analysis.
Beatriz León-SalasMaría M Trujillo-MartínLuis Pedro Martínez Del CastilloJavier García-GarcíaPilar Pérez-RosFrancisco Rivas-RuizPedro Serrano-AguilarPublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2020)
This meta-analysis suggests that multicomponent interventions to prevent delirium are effective in decreasing its incidence, duration, and severity; as well as the incidence of pressure ulcers in hospitalized older people. Therefore, multicomponent interventions hold great promise to impact in the most important and prevalent conditions affecting fragile older people during hospitalization.