Advantages of score-based delirium detection compared to a clinical delirium assessment-a retrospective, monocentric cohort study.

Markus JäckelNico AicherXavier BemtgenJonathan RilingerViviane ZotzmannPaul Marc BieverAlexander SupadyPeter StachonDaniel DuerschmiedTobias WengenmayerChristoph BodeDawid Leander Staudacher

Published in: PloS one (2021)

Delirium in patients with hypoactive delirium, female patients and those below 60 years was underdiagnosed by physicians. The score-based delirium diagnosis detected delirium more frequently and correlated with ICU mortality and stay.

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