Frailty and psychotropic medication use are identified as potentially modifiable risk factors for postoperative delirium in older adults.
Supports preoperative frailty optimization and medication review; extends modifiable risk factor evidence for delirium prevention trials.
Though caution must be used in interpreting meta-analyses of non-randomized studies due to the potential influence of unmeasured confounding, we identified potentially modifiable prognostic factors including frailty and psychotropic medication use that should be targeted to optimize care.
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