Long-term mortality impact of postoperative hyperactive delirium in older hip fracture surgery patients | BMC Geriatrics
The association between postoperative hyperactive delirium and mortality is an area of increasing research interest, but the presence of confounding bias makes causal inference challenging [9, 35,36,37,38,39,40]. Many factors that are strongly associated with postoperative hyperactive delirium, such as advanced age, comorbidity, and high-risk surgery, are also independent risk factors for mortality [7, 23, 24]. … Read more