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cord-282736-1sc19r5m	Marengoni, Alessandra	The impact of delirium on outcomes for older adults hospitalised with COVID-19	2020-08-20		.txt	text/plain	1898	94	40	The aim of this study is to evaluate the presence of delirium in older patients admitted for a suspected diagnosis of COVID-19 and its impact on in-hospital mortality. During the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic, delirium was directly assessed by two geriatricians of the hospital ward who visited the patients at least twice per day, by means of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM V) criteria [11] . Delirium is a common condition in older people admitted for COVID-19 and is strongly associated with in-hospital mortality independently of pre-existing individual characteristics and measures of infectious disease severity. In our study in-hospital mortality was extremely high in patients with SARS-COV-2 with (72%) and without delirium (31.8%), but the odd of dying in patients with COVID-19 and delirium was four times higher compared to those without delirium, even after adjusting for possible predisposing factors, such as multimorbidity and frailty, and the severity of the infectious disease at hospital admission, measured by means of peripheral oxygen saturation.	./cache/cord-282736-1sc19r5m.txt	./txt/cord-282736-1sc19r5m.txt