| ACCI | age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index |
| AFR | albumin-fibrinogen ratio |
| APS | acute physiology score |
| ASA | American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification |
| 3D-CAM | 3-Minute Diagnostic Interview for CAM-defined Delirium |
| 4AT | Four-item Acute Delirium Test |
| CAM | Confusion Assessment Method |
| CAM-ICU | Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit |
| CCI | Charlson Comorbidity Index |
| CHD | coronary heart disease |
| CONUT | Controlling Nutritional Status |
| CRP | C-reactive protein |
| DCA | decision curve analysis |
| DSM | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
| GNRI | Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index |
| ICU | intensive care unit |
| IL | interleukin |
| LIME | Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanation |
| LR | logistic regression |
| LSMM | low skeletal muscle mass |
| MCV | mean corpuscular volume |
| mFI | modified frailty index |
| MMSE | Mini-Mental State Examination |
| NLR | neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio |
| NRS | numerical rating scale |
| PACU | post-anesthesia care unit |
| PNI | prognostic nutritional index |
| POD | postoperative delirium |
| PROBAST | Prediction model Risk Of Bias ASsessment Tool |
| PWR | platelet-to-white cell ratio |
| RF | random forest |
| SAS | sedation-agitation scale |
| SHAP | Shapley Additive Explanations |
| SII | systemic immune-inflammation index |
| SIINI | systemic immune-inflammatory-nutritional index |
| SVM | support vector machine |
| TC | total cholesterol |
| TG | triglyceride |
| TMAO | trimethylamine N-oxide |
| TRIPOD | Transparent Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis |
| VAS | visual analog scale |
| VC | vital capacity |
| XGBoost | extreme gradient boosting |