Delirium Phenotype by Age and Sex in a Pooled Data Set of Adult Patients

• Published in: The journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 294 - 301
• Main Authors: Trzepacz, Paula T, Franco, José G, Meagher, David J, Lee, Yanghyun, Kim, Jeong-Lan, Kishi, Yasuhiro, Furlanetto, Leticia M, Negreiros, Daniel, Huang, Ming-Chyi, Chen, Chun-Hsin, Kean, Jacob, Leonard, Maeve
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychiatric Association 01.10.2018
• Subjects: Delirium; Aging of the Brain; Sex Differences (Neuropsychiatric Aspects)

The authors aimed to evaluate whether the clinical phenotype of delirium differs if dichotomized either by sex or age (cutoff age, 65 years old) in a pooled sample of 406 nondemented adult patients with delirium as defined by DSM-IV criteria. Delirium characteristics were measured with the Delirium...