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…uted, to explore whether the activities undertaken had improved delirium practice.Results Based on an audit of case notes (N=200), scree…

…ularly antipsychotics and neuroleptics.Conclusion Patients with delirium had significantly poorer sleep quality and were more often trea…

…f tricyclic antidepressants (p=0.121), nor with the presence of type I diabetes (p=0.216). On an annual average, the prevalence of patients who…

…ifference −2.42 (95% credible interval −4.72 to −0.12) Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale points). Most interventions had no effect on l…

… Rosenberg, Bullen. J Palliat Med. 2014;17(9):1045-8). However, delirium is often poorly recognised and managed (Hosie, Davidson, Agar, …

…tion, involving Ng, are not key processes in the development of delirium. Further studies on other synaptic proteins are warranted to be…

…compulsory psychiatric admissions in our sample. In addition to delirium, the most frequent reason for requesting CLP evaluation was dep…

…In the present study, more than one-third of patients developed delirium. Pain, mechanical ventilation, age 65 or older and agitation (R…

…replacement therapy as well as clinical factors associated with delirium, mortality and health service outcomes, including organ support…

…ation and delirium may compound under-recognition of hypoactive delirium, and the use of the prefix ‘terminal’ may preclude appropriate …

…nostic Confusion Assessment Method. Secondary outcomes included delirium treatment, average sleep duration or sleep maintained, 28-day m…

…tool for assessing both the diagnosis and severity of delirium (Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (DRS-R-98)) in people with dementia who…