Delirium is an often acute and highly fluctuating syndrome that can be transient or in some
cases associated with prolonged disturbances. The best way to capture its natural course is …

Objectives: To estimate prospectively the incidence of delirium in psychiatric inpatients and
to identify risk factors for delirium in this population. Method: The subjects were nondelirious …

Information about the epidemiology of delirium has grown tremendously over the past 2
decades. However, methodological challenges have made this area of research difficult to …

Delirium's characteristic fluctuation in symptom severity complicates the assessment of test–
retest reliability of scales using classical analyses, but application of modelling to …

Delirium is underrecognized clinically. Many tools have been developed to assist with the
diagnosis of delirium, and they vary greatly in purpose, quality, and administration time. It is …

There is a large body of empirical evidence for the usefulness of pharmacological treatment
of delirium though there is a relative dearth of double-blind randomized clinical trials and …

BackgroundDelirium phenomenology is understudied. AimsTo investigate the relationship
between cognitive and non-cognitive delirium symptoms and test the primacy of inattention …

The Delirium Rating Scale is a clinician-rated, 10-item symptom rating scale for assessment
of delirium severity. In order to better understand the relationship between items of the scale …

The DRS-R-98, a 16-item clinician-rated scale with 13 severity items and 3 diagnostic items,
was validated against the Cognitive Test for Delirium (CTD), Clinical Global Impression …

The purpose of this paper was to contribute to a new conceptual understanding of delirium
by reviewing evidence related to its prevention, treatment, and outcome. The review process …