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Factors Associated with Recovery in Delirium Masayuki KANOH 1 , Kazuo MIYANAGA 2 , Yukiteru MACHIYAMA 2 1Department of Neuropsychiatry, Tatebayashi Kousei Hospital 2Department of Neuropsychiatry, Gunma University School of Medicine Keyword: Delirium , Time to recovery , Outcome pp.1071-1077
Published Date 1995/10/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1405903967
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 To determine the factors associated with recovery in delirium, we studied the clinical course and outcome of 116 patients with delirium who were admitted to our medical and surgical wards. Seventy-one of the 116 patients (61%) recovered within the first 2 weeks, and then the rate of recovery declined markedly. Twenty patients (17%) recovered later and 25 (22%) did not recover (death or transition to dementia). Compared with the early-recovery group, there was a longer time from initial symptoms to the referral in the late-recovery patients. The nonrecovery patients were more likely than the early-recovery group to be physically diagnosed as having a malignancy and to have had a long duration of delirium. There were no significant differences in sex, age, severity of delirium, complication of dementia, or treatment received between the early-recovery group and the late-recovery or nonrecovery group. We conclude that (1) a long duration of delirium before treatment delays the recovery; and (2) the outcome of delirium is associated with the patient's physical illness and the duration of delirium.


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