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Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months

BACKGROUND: Delirium is common among seniors discharged from the emergency department (ED) and associated with increased risk of mortality. Prior research has addressed mortality associated with seniors discharged from the ED with delirium, however has generally relied on data from one or a small nu...

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Autores principales: Israni, Juhi, Lesser, Adriane, Kent, Tyler, Ko, Kelly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29730630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021258
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Lesser, Adriane
Kent, Tyler
Ko, Kelly
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description BACKGROUND: Delirium is common among seniors discharged from the emergency department (ED) and associated with increased risk of mortality. Prior research has addressed mortality associated with seniors discharged from the ED with delirium, however has generally relied on data from one or a small number of institutions and at single time points. OBJECTIVES: Analyse mortality rates among seniors discharged from the ED with delirium up to 12 months at the national level. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Analysed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services limited data sets for 2012–2013. PARTICIPANTS: Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years or older discharged from the ED. We focused on new incident cases of delirium, patients with any prior claims for delirium, hospice claims or end-stage renal disease were excluded. Sample size included 26 245 delirium claims, and a randomly selected sample of 262 450 controls. OUTCOME MEASURES: Mortality within 12 months after discharge from the ED, excluding patients transferred or admitted as inpatients. RESULTS: Among all beneficiaries, 46 508 (16.1%) died within 12 months, of which 39 404 (15.0%) were in the non-delirium (ie, control group) and 7104 (27.1%) were in the delirium cohort, respectively. Mortality was strongest at 30 days with an adjusted HR of 4.82 (95% CI 4.60 to 5.04). Over time, delirium was consistently associated with increased mortality risk compared with controls up to 12 months (HR 2.07; 95% CI 2.01 to 2.13). Covariates that affected mortality included older age, comorbidity and presence of dementia. CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate delirium is a significant marker of mortality among seniors in the ED, and mortality risk is most salient in the first 3 months following an ED visit. Given the significant clinical and financial implications, there is a need to increase delirium screening and management within the ED to help identify and treat this potentially fatal condition.
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spelling pubmed-59424632018-05-11 Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months Israni, Juhi Lesser, Adriane Kent, Tyler Ko, Kelly BMJ Open Geriatric Medicine BACKGROUND: Delirium is common among seniors discharged from the emergency department (ED) and associated with increased risk of mortality. Prior research has addressed mortality associated with seniors discharged from the ED with delirium, however has generally relied on data from one or a small number of institutions and at single time points. OBJECTIVES: Analyse mortality rates among seniors discharged from the ED with delirium up to 12 months at the national level. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Analysed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services limited data sets for 2012–2013. PARTICIPANTS: Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years or older discharged from the ED. We focused on new incident cases of delirium, patients with any prior claims for delirium, hospice claims or end-stage renal disease were excluded. Sample size included 26 245 delirium claims, and a randomly selected sample of 262 450 controls. OUTCOME MEASURES: Mortality within 12 months after discharge from the ED, excluding patients transferred or admitted as inpatients. RESULTS: Among all beneficiaries, 46 508 (16.1%) died within 12 months, of which 39 404 (15.0%) were in the non-delirium (ie, control group) and 7104 (27.1%) were in the delirium cohort, respectively. Mortality was strongest at 30 days with an adjusted HR of 4.82 (95% CI 4.60 to 5.04). Over time, delirium was consistently associated with increased mortality risk compared with controls up to 12 months (HR 2.07; 95% CI 2.01 to 2.13). Covariates that affected mortality included older age, comorbidity and presence of dementia. CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate delirium is a significant marker of mortality among seniors in the ED, and mortality risk is most salient in the first 3 months following an ED visit. Given the significant clinical and financial implications, there is a need to increase delirium screening and management within the ED to help identify and treat this potentially fatal condition. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5942463/ /pubmed/29730630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021258 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
spellingShingle Geriatric Medicine
Israni, Juhi
Lesser, Adriane
Kent, Tyler
Ko, Kelly
Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
title Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
title_full Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
title_fullStr Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
title_full_unstemmed Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
title_short Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
title_sort delirium as a predictor of mortality in us medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
topic Geriatric Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29730630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021258
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