Table 2.

Characteristics of Patients at Baseline Interview (T0) By Memory of Being Confused. Patients were categorized into two groups according to the answer to the question “Do you remember being confused?” at the Baseline Interview.

Variable	Remembered being confused N=15	Did not remember being confused N=15	P value
CDR	1.6 (±0.2)	1.6 (0.2)	0.33
IQCODE	4.3 (±0.2)	3.9 (±0.3)	0.21
Category of CDR			0.77
CDR 1 (N, %)	7 (44%)	8 (54%)
CDR 2 (N, %)	7 (44%)	4 (26%)
CDR 3 (N, %)	2 (12%)	3 (20%)
Type of dementia			0.78
-AD	6 (37)	6 (46)
-VaD	5 (31)	7 (40)
LBD	1 (6)	–
Other	4 (25)	2 (13)
Duration of delirium (days)	2.8 (± 0.5)	5.4 (±1.3)	0.01
Hypoactive delirium, (N, %)	9 (60)	11 (73)	0.50
Hyperactive delirium, (N, %)	5 (33)	4 (27)	0.60
Non hyper-hypoactive delirium	1 (7)	–
D-O-M max	16.5 (±1.2)	15.1 (1.2)	0.05
D-O-M symptoms (N, %)*
Sustained attention	10 (66)	1 (6)	0.08
Shifting attention	9 (60)	2 (13)	0.05
Orientation	7 (46)	3 (20)	0.52
Consciousness	8 (53)	3 (20)	0.25
Apathy	9 (60)	1 (6)	0.02
Hypokinesia/Psychomotor retardation	5 (33)	2 (13)	0.07
Incoherence	6 (40)	1 (6)	0.22
Fluctuation in functioning	6 (40)	1 (6)	0.13
Restlesness	7 (46)	1 (6)	0.07
Delusions	6 (40)	0 (0)	0.08
Hallucinations	4 (26)	0 (0)	0.09
Anxiety/fear	6 (40)	1 (6)	0.13

CDR, Clinical Dementia Rating Scale; IQCODE, Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly; D-O-M, delirium-O-meter; AD, Alzheimer’s Dementia; VaD, Vascular Dementia; LBD, Lewy Body dementia.

^*Symptoms remembered by the patients at the T0 interview.