The phenotype of delirium based on a close reading of diagnostic criteria.

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OBJECTIVE: Although delirium is well known to acute care clinicians, the features required for its diagnosis and how to understand and operationalize them remain sticking points in the field. To clarify the delirium phenotype, we present a close reading of past and current sets of delirium diagnostic criteria. METHODS: We first differentiate the delirium syndrome (i.e., features evaluated at bedside) from...

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