TY  - JOUR
T1  - The danger of delirium: Comment on “delirium and long-term cognitive trajectory among persons with dementia”
AU  - Vasilevskis EE, Ely E
Y1  - 2012/09/24
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3414
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1331
EP  - 1332
VL  - 172
IS  - 17
N2  - 
The long-term effects of hospitalization on cognition are highlighted by a pair of recent studies. In a large prospective community cohort, Ehlenbach et al1 demonstrated a 40% increased risk of incident dementia up to 6 years following hospitalization for a noncritical illness (hazard ratio, 1.4; 95% CI, 1.1-1.7) and an even greater risk among the critically ill (hazard ratio, 2.3; 95% CI, 0.9-5.7). In another cohort of community-dwelling older patients, Wilson et al2 showed that hospitalization was independently associated with a 2.4-fold increase in the rate of global cognitive function decline.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3414
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3414
ER  -