Diagnosing delirium in elderly Thai patients: Utilization of the CAM algorithm

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 The patients' demographics

Items	Values
Mean Age (years)	74.53 ± 8.07*
Min age (years)	60
Max age (years)	93
Number of males (%)	39 (59.1)
Mode of formal education (years)	4
Min education (years)	0
Max education (years)	16
Mean of MMSE (out of 30)
% dementia by MMSE-Thai 2002	34(25.6)†
Comorbidity, n (%)
Respiratory	2(3.2)
Cardio-respiratory	7(11.1)
Surgery	11(17.5)
Infection	6(9.5)
Metabolic	5(7.9)
Electrolyte imbalance	4(6.3)
Intracranial causes	6(9.5)
Blood dyscrasia	1(1.6)
Others	3(4.8)
More than one diagnosis	18(28.6)

N = 66, *There was a significant difference between the delirium and non-delirium group using both CAM algorithm and the DSM-IV TR (t = 3.0 vs. t = 2.3, p < 0.05), † Mann-Whitney U statistics indicated that there was a significant difference between the delirium and non-delirium groups using both the CAM algorithm and DSM-IV TR (p < 0.05)

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