Research Article
Impact of a Premorbid Psychiatric Disorder on the Incidence of Delirium during ICU Stay, Morbidity, and Long-Term Mortality
Table 3
Secondary analysis: baseline characteristics.
| | Delirium () | Nondelirium () | value |
| Age (years) | 68 (61–76) | 66 (56–74) | 0.007 | Male (%) | 67 | 58 | 0.04 | APACHE III score | 75 (58–93) | 60 (47–82) | <0.001 | Predicted mortality (%) | 20 (7–41) | 11 (3–30) | <0.001 | SOFA score | 7 (6–9) | 6 (4–8) | <0.001 | Type of admission (%) | | | | Elective surgery | 40 | 34 | | Emergency surgery | 25 | 27 | 0.33 | Medical | 35 | 39 | | Intoxications (%) | | | | Smoking | 14 | 12 | 0.58 | Alcohol | 8 | 7 | 0.86 | Soft drugs | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1 | Hard drugs | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1 | Medication (number of drugs) | 5 (2–8) | 5 (2–8) | 0.60 | Psychoactive drugs (%) | | | | Antipsychotics | 3 | 4 | 0.46 | Antidepressants | 12 | 11 | 0.77 | Sedatives | 7 | 6 | 0.71 | Hypnotics | 9 | 12 | 0.53 | Continuity psychoactive drugs (%) | () | () | | No interruption | 12 | 17 | | Restart within 4 days | 15 | 23 | 0.17 | Restart later than 4 days | 15 | 4 | | No restart | 58 | 56 | |
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Data are presented as median (IQR). APACHE: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.
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