Delirium in elderly patients: risk factors and outcomes
- Conditions
- confusionDelirium10012221
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON33027
- Lead Sponsor
- TweeSteden ziekenhuis
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 210
Inclusion criteria patient group: All patients who are admitted to the Department of Geriatrics with a delirium or who develop a delirium during their hospital stay, will be asked for participation in the proposed study when their delirium has ended.
Inclusion criteria control group: All patients who are acutely admitted (within 3 days) to the Department of Geriatrics and did not developed a delirium during their hospital stay.
(1) A delirium at time of assessment
(2) A Mini-Mental State Exam score below 18, indicating severe cognitive
problems
(3) Patients not capable of giving informed consent
(4) Sight and/or hearing impairments
(5) A palliative policy
(6) Inability to speak, read, write or understand Dutch
(7) Patients who are not testable according to physicians/nurses
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Primary: Cognitive and psychological functioning over time. </p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Secondary: All-cause mortality, morbidity. </p><br>
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