Research Article
Incidence and Risk Factors of Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cohort
Table 1
Baseline characteristics and outcomes of the participants according to with and without delirium.
| | Variables | Patients without delirium () | Patients with delirium () | Total patients () | value |
| | Age, (years) | | | | 0.446 | | Gender, male (%) | 172 (58.9) | 84 (77.8) | 256 (64) | <0.001 | | Marital status, unmarried (%) | 77 (26.4) | 56 (51.9) | 133 (33.2) | <0.001 | | Smoking, yes (%) | 158 (54.1) | 79 (73.1) | 237 (59.3) | 0.001 | | Cause of ICU admission, trauma (%) | 223 (76.4) | 79 (73.1) | 302 (75.5) | 0.506 | | Head trauma, yes (%) | 43 (14.7) | 71 (65.7) | 114 (28.5) | <0.001 | | Usage of MV, yes (%) | 109 (37.3) | 87 (80.6) | 196 (49) | <0.001 | | APACHE IV score, | | | | <0.001 | | SOFA score, | | | | <0.001 | | RASS, | | | | <0.001 | | VAP, yes (%) | 42/109 (38.5) | 16/87 (18.4) | 58/196 (29.6) | 0.006 | | Antibiotics therapy, yes (%) | 188 (64.4) | 86 (79.6) | 274 (68.5) | 0.004 | | Hospital LOS, (day) | | | | <0.001 | | ICU LOS, (day) | | | | <0.001 | | Outcome, mortality (%) | 18 (6.2) | 23 (21.3) | 41 (10.2) | <0.001 |
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APACHE IV: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV; SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; RASS: Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale; MV: mechanical ventilator; VAP: ventilator-associated pneumonia; LOS: length of stay.
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