TY - JOUR AU - Evensen, Sigurd AU - Saltvedt, Ingvild AU - Lydersen, Stian AU - Wyller, Torgeir Bruun AU - Taraldsen, Kristin AU - Sletvold, Olav PY - 2018 DA - 2018/11/15 TI - Environmental factors and risk of delirium in geriatric patients: an observational study JO - BMC Geriatrics SP - 282 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Patients with delirium have increased risk of death, dementia and institutionalization, and prognosis differs between delirium motor subtypes. A few studies have identified associations between environmental factors like room-transfers and time spent in the emergency department (ED) and delirium, but no studies have investigated if environmental factors may influence delirium motor subtypes. We wanted to explore if potentially stressful events like ward-transfers, arriving ED at nighttime, time spent in ED and nigthttime investigations were associated with development of delirium (incident delirium) and delirium motor subtypes. SN - 1471-2318 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0977-y DO - 10.1186/s12877-018-0977-y ID - Evensen2018 ER -