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Risk factors for incident delirium in acute medical in-patients. A systematic review Cull, Emily, Kent, Bridie, Phillips, Nicole and Mistarz, Renata 2012, Risk factors for incident delirium in acute medical in-patients. A systematic review, JBI library of systematic reviews, vol. 10, no. 56, Supplement, pp. 1-12. Title Risk factors for incident delirium in acute medical in-patients. A systematic review Author(s) Cull, Emily Kent, Bridie Phillips, Nicole Mistarz, Renata Journal name JBI library of systematic reviews Volume number 10 Issue number 56 Season Supplement Start page 1 End page 12 Total pages 12 Publisher University of Adelaide, Faculty of Health Sciences Place of publication Adelaide, S. Aust. Publication date 2012 ISSN 1838-2142 Keyword(s) incident delirium acute care medical patients risk factors Summary Review question/objective What risk factors are associated with incident delirium in adult patients during an acute medical hospitalisation? More specifically, the objectives are to: Identify and synthesise the best available evidence on the factors which are associated with delirium in adult patients admitted to acute medical facilities. Types of participants This review will consider studies that include adults (defined as 18 years and above) who were admitted to an acute medical setting (e.g. general medical units, stroke units, short stay units and neuromedical units) who were not delirious on admission (in order to differentiate incident delirium) but who developed incident delirium during hospitalisation The review will exclude patients who were: - critically ill and admitted to specialist unit e.g. ICU or CCU - admitted for any type of surgery - admitted for alcohol related reasons - admitted to psychiatric facility These patients will be excluded in order to determine factors that may be exclusive to the medical in patient setting. Types of intervention(s)/phenomena of interest This review will consider studies that evaluate any risk factors that may contribute to the development of delirium during in-patient hospitalisation. The review will look at factors present on admission (predisposing) and also factors that may occur during hospitalisation (precipitating) that contribute to incident delirium. Types of outcomes This review will consider studies that include the following outcome measures: the incidence of delirium as related to individual risk factors. Language eng Field of Research 111003 Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care) Socio Economic Objective 920210 Nursing HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30052512 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Nursing and Midwifery Higher Education Research Group Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 14 May 2013, 15:23:56 EST Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:03:25 EST Wed, 15 May 2013, 13:49:53 EST Wed, 15 May 2013, 13:53:36 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 13:33:57 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 20 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 14 May 2013, 15:23:47 EST by Jane Moschetti

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