Acute brain failure: pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, and sequelae of delirium

JR Maldonado - Critical care clinics, 2017 - criticalcare.theclinics.com
Delirium is the most common neuropsychiatric syndrome found in the acute care setting,
with a prevalence ranging from 10% in general medicine to 85% in advanced cancer and …

Risk factors for incident delirium among older people in acute hospital medical units: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Ahmed, B Leurent, EL Sampson - Age and ageing, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background: delirium affects up to 40% of older hospitalised patients, but there has been no
systematic review focussing on risk factors for incident delirium in older medical inpatients …

BamTools: a C++ API and toolkit for analyzing and managing BAM files

DW Barnett, EK Garrison, AR Quinlan… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Analysis of genomic sequencing data requires efficient, easy-to-use access to
alignment results and flexible data management tools (eg filtering, merging, sorting, etc.) …

Validation of the Delirium Rating Scale-revised-98: comparison with the delirium rating scale and the cognitive test for delirium

PT Trzepacz, D Mittal, R Torres… - The Journal of …, 2001 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment scales for delirium: A review

S Grover, N Kate - World journal of psychiatry, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the years many scales have been designed for screening, diagnosis and assessing the
severity of delirium. In this paper we review the various instruments available to screen the …

The prognostic significance of delirium in older hospital patients

S O'Keeffe, J Lavan - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether delirium is an independent predictor of adverse
outcomes of hospitalization in older patients. DESIGN: Cohort study PATIENTS: A total of …

Delirium in elderly patients

MG Cole - Focus, 2005 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Delirium is a mental disorder characterized by disturbances in consciousness, orientation,
memory, thought, perception, and behavior, of acute onset and fluctuating course. It occurs …

Delirium in the acute care setting: characteristics, diagnosis and treatment

JR Maldonado - Critical care clinics, 2008 - Elsevier
Delirium is a neurobehavioral syndrome caused by the transient disruption of normal
neuronal activity secondary to systemic disturbances. It is also the most common psychiatric …

Clinical significance of delirium subtypes in older people.

ST O'Keeffe, JN Lavan - Age and ageing, 1999 - academic.oup.com
OBJECTIVE: to examine the relative frequency and outcome of clinical subtypes of delirium
in older hospital patients. DESIGN: prospective observational study. SETTING: acute …

Delirium: advances in diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment

PT Trzepacz - Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1996 - Elsevier
Delirium is an acute confusional state with an average prevalence of about 20% in general
hospital populations, based on both referral and consecutive admission study designs. It …