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Interrelationship between patient vulnerability and precipitating factors for developing acute brain dysfunction such as delirium. Patients who not vulnerable require significant noxious stimuli to develop acute brain dysfunction (black arrow). Patients who are highly vulnerable require only minor noxious stimuli to develop acute brain dysfunction (gray arrow). Adapted from Inouye et al. JAMA 1996;275:852–857.
