Epidemiology of Delirium: An Overview of Research Issues and Findings
Epidemiology of Delirium: An Overview of Research Issues and Findings
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谵妄的流行病学：研究问题和结果概述
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发表时间：
1991
影响因子：
7
通讯作者：
Denis A. Evans
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作者：
S. Levkoff;P. Cleary;B. Liptzin;Denis A. Evans
本文提供了一个审查的研究问题和调查结果的流行病学谵妄。尽管对这一重要的老年综合征的研究已经进行了几十年，但一些方法学问题使得很难比较研究结果。在本文中，我们首先讨论了广泛的诊断，病例发现和研究人群的方法学问题。我们接下来回顾了该综合征的发生和后果的数据。联邦-哈佛老年住院患者谵妄研究的设计和初步结果的讨论记录了我们如何回应所概述的方法学问题以及这些选择如何影响我们的发现。最后，我们讨论了进一步研究谵妄的流行病学的需要。
This paper provides a review of research issues and findings on the epidemiology of delirium. Despite the fact that research on this important geriatric syndrome has been conducted for many decades, several methodological issues make it difficult to compare findings across studies. In this paper we first discuss broadly methodological issues related to diagnosis, case-finding, and populations studied. We next review data on the occurrence and consequences of the syndrome. A discussion of the design and preliminary results of the Commonwealth-Harvard Study of Delirium in Elderly Hospitalized Patients documents both how we responded to the methodological issues outlined and how these choices influenced our findings. We conclude with a discussion of the needs for further research on the epidemiology of delirium.
DOI：
10.1001/jama.1990.03440080075027
发表时间：
1990-02
期刊：
JAMA
影响因子：
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作者：
J. Francis;David H. Martin;W. Kapoor
通讯作者：
J. Francis;David H. Martin;W. Kapoor