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Outcomes of a Delirium Prevention Program in Older Persons After Elective Surgery: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

IMPORTANCE: Delirium significantly worsens elective surgery outcomes and costs. Delirium risk is highest in elderly populations, whose surgical health care resource consumption (50%) exceeds their demographic proportion (15% to 18%) in high-resource countries. Effective nonpharmacologic delirium pre...

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Autores principales: Deeken, Friederike, Sánchez, Alba, Rapp, Michael A., Denkinger, Michael, Brefka, Simone, Spank, Juliane, Bruns, Carola, von Arnim, Christine A. F., Küster, Olivia C., Conzelmann, Lars O., Metz, Brigitte R., Maurer, Christoph, Skrobik, Yoanna, Forkavets, Oksana, Eschweiler, Gerhard W., Thomas, Christine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Medical Association 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8674802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34910080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2021.6370