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Table 8 Background of postoperative delirium in lung patients

From: Clinical risk factors associated with postoperative delirium and evaluation of delirium management and assessment team in lung and esophageal cancer patients

  

Before intervention (2011)

After intervention (2012)

P-values

  

Number

%

Number

%

High-risk patients

88

47.0

99

53.0

 

Delirium patients

19

21.6

9

9.10

0.01

Sex

Male

57

64.7

63

63.6

0.87

Female

31

35.3

36

36.4

Mean age

71.9 (30-88)

73.8 (34-87)

0.16

Age(>70)

67

76.1

84

84.8

0.13

Past history of cephalopathy

26

29.5

28

28.3

0.85

Past history of delirium

10

11.4

19

19.2

0.14

Cognitive decline

5

5.7

9

9.1

0.38

Alcoholism

10

11.4

15

15.2

0.45