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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiology. 2009 Apr;110(4):788–795. doi: 10.1097/aln.0b013e31819b5ba6

Table 6.

30 Day Postoperative Outcomes in Patients with Postoperative Delirium vs. No Delirium

No Delirium (n = 84) Delirium (n = 16) P value
Wound infections n (%) 12 (14.1%) 2 (13.3%) 1.000
Urinary tract n (%) 6 (7.1%) 4 (26.7%) 0.052
Respiratory n (%) 1 (1.2%) 3 (20.0%) 0.013*
Cardiac n (%) 3 (3.5%) 1 (6.7%) 0.248
Central nervous system n (%) 1 (1.2% 1 (6.3%) 0.296
Other n (%) 17 (20.2%) 5 (31.3%) 0.336
Number of complications n 40 16 0.006*

† mean ± standard deviation

n = number of patients

*

P < 0.05