Clinical characteristics associated with the onset of delirium among long-term nursing home residents

BackgroundNursing home residents are frail, have multiple medical comorbidities, and are at high risk for delirium. Most of the existing evidence base on delirium is derived from studies in the acute in-patient population. We examine the association between clinical characteristics and medication use with the incidence of delirium during the nursing home stay.MethodsThis is a retrospective cohort study of 1571 residents from 12 nursing homes …