Psychosomatics
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Multicenter Study
The association of comorbid depression with intensive care unit admission in patients with diabetes: a prospective cohort study.
It is unknown if comorbid depression in patients with diabetes mellitus increases the risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission. ⋯ Patients with diabetes and comorbid depression have a greater risk of ICU admission. Improving depression treatment in patients with diabetes could potentially prevent hospitalizations for critical illnesses and lower healthcare costs.
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Delirium is a common, yet frequently under-recognized medical/psychiatric complication for hospitalized patients, associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. While easy-to-use delirium screening tools exist for ventilated patients, their use in non-critically ill, hospitalized patients has not been validated. ⋯ This study suggests that in non-critically ill hospitalized patients, the CAM-ICU and ICDSC intensive care delirium screening tools are not adequately sensitive for use in routine clinical practice. Further work is needed to develop more sensitive, efficient tools in this population.