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Subsyndromal delirium compared with delirium, dementia, and subjects without delirium or dementia in elderly general hospital admissions and nursing home residents

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    Identificador: PC:2542
  • Autores:

    Jose G. Franco
    Esteban Sepulveda
    Maeve Leonard
    Dimitrios Adamis
    Geraldine McCarthy
    Colum Dunne
    Paula T. Trzepacz
    Ana M. Gaviria
    Joan de Pablo
    Elisabet Vilella
    David J. Meagher
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    Autor según el artículo: Jose G. Franco; Esteban Sepulveda; Maeve Leonard; Dimitrios Adamis; Geraldine McCarthy; Colum Dunne; Paula T. Trzepacz; Ana M. Gaviria; Joan de Pablo; Elisabet Vilella; David J. Meagher
    Departamento: Psicologia Medicina i Cirurgia
    Autor/es de la URV: FRANCO VÁSQUEZ, JOSÉ GABRIEL; Esteban Sepulveda; Maeve Leonard; Dimitrios Adamis; Geraldine McCarthy; Colum Dunne; Paula T. Trzepacz; Ana M. Gaviria; Joan de Pablo; VILELLA CUADRADA, ELISABET; David J. Meagher
    Palabras clave: Subsyndromal Dementia Delirium
    Resumen: Introduction Subsyndromal delirium (SSD) complicates diagnosis of delirium and dementia, although there is little research comparing their symptom profiles. Methods Cross-sectional study of 400 elderly patients’ admission to a general hospital or nursing home diagnosed with delirium, SSD, dementia, or no-delirium/no-dementia (NDND). Symptom profiles were assessed using the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (DRS-R98). Results Twenty percent patients had delirium, 19.3% had SSD, 29.8% had dementia-only, and 31% had NDND. Eighty-one percent of subsyndromal and 76% of delirium groups had comorbid dementia. DRS-R98 scores showed ascending severity from NDND < dementia-only < SSD < delirium. DRS-R98 scores for items evaluating the three core symptom domains (cognitive, higher-order thinking, and circadian) distinguished SSD from delirium and both from nondelirium groups. DRS-R98 profiles were essentially the same in delirium and SSD subgroups with or without dementia, although total scale scores were generally higher when in comorbid subgroups. Discussion SSD shared characteristic core domain symptoms with delirium, which distinguished each from nondelirium groups, although severity was intermediate in the subsyndromal group. Delirium core symptoms overshadowed the dementia phenotype when comorbid. Milder disturbances of delirium core domain symptoms are highly suggestive of SSD.
    Grupo de investigación: Grup d'Investigació en Psiquiatria
    Áreas temáticas: Psychology Psicología Psicologia
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 2352-8729
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-9255-8084; n/a; n/a; 0000-0003-1315-1695; n/a; n/a; n/a; 0000-0001-5082-7733; n/a; n/a; n/a
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2017-01-24
    Página final: 10
    Volumen de revista: 7
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.dadm.2016.11.002
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.dadm.2016.11.002
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2017
    Página inicial: 1
    Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article
  • Palabras clave:

    Deliri
    Demència -- Diagnòstic
    Subsyndromal
    Dementia
    Delirium
    Psychology
    Psicología
    Psicologia
    2352-8729
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