Why the study?
Do motor subtypes of postoperative delirium in older adults indicate differing prognosis and adverse event profiles?
Do motor subtypes of postoperative delirium in older adults indicate differing prognosis and adverse event profiles?
Recognizing motor subtypes of postoperative delirium, particularly the common and high-risk hypoactive subtype, can help guide clinical management and prognostication in older adults.
Supports recognition of hypoactive delirium for prognostication in older surgical patients; leaves open targeted treatment effects by motor subtype.
Motor subtypes of delirium alert clinicians to differing prognosis and adverse event profiles in postoperative geriatric patients. Hypoactive delirium is the most common motor subtype and is associated with worse prognosis (6-month mortality, 1 in 3 patients). Knowledge of differing adverse event profiles can modify clinicians' management of older patients with postoperative delirium.
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