What does delirium cost?
Weinrebe, W.; Johannsdottir, E.; Karaman, M.; Füsgen, I. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2015 · Heft 3 · S. 52 bis 58
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Zusammenfassung
BackgroundThe average age of clinically treated patients has increased regardless of the specific clinical activity (e.g. internal, surgical and urological) [6]; therefore, an increase in age-related comorbidities can be expected. Delirium is a significant, common [2, 12, 15, 18] and dangerous complication [1, 3, 11, 20] in acutely ill, older patients and is associated with significant additional expenses. It is not often considered [17, 19] and to date there are no exact investigations of the time-related additional expenses by the medical and nursing personnel with respect to the treatment of delirious patient…
