Predicting delirium after hip fracture with a 2-min cognitive screen: prospective cohort study | Zendy

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Predicting delirium after hip fracture with a 2-min cognitive screen: prospective cohort study

Author(s) -

Sileno de Queiroz Fortes-Filho,

Daniel Apolinário,

Juliana A. Melo,

Itiro Suzuki,

Maria do Carmo Sitta,

Luiz Eugênio Garcez Leme

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afw084

Subject(s) - delirium , medicine , hip fracture , prospective cohort study , cohort , tertiary referral hospital , cognitive test , cohort study , physical therapy , cognition , referral , fluency , emergency medicine , retrospective cohort study , psychiatry , psychology , osteoporosis , mathematics education , family medicine

although the importance of identifying hip fracture patients with high risk for delirium has been well established, considerable controversy exists over the choice of the screening tool. The most commonly used cognitive screeners take an excessive amount of time and include drawing tasks that can be troublesome for individuals with hip fracture who are invariably lying in bed.

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