The Psychogeriatric Patient in the Emergency Room: Focus on Management and Disposition

Table 4

Disposition of patients who presented with delirium compared with all patients.

Disposition	Delirium visits only	All visits
	(𝑁=85)	(𝑁=138)
	𝑁 (%)	𝑁 (%)
Medicine inpatient unit*	41 (48.2)	49 (35.5)
Home	14 (16.5)	25 (18.1)
Nursing home	10 (11.8)	13 (9.4)
Psychiatric inpatient unit*	2 (2.4)	23 (16.7)
Other	18 (21.2)	28 (20.3)

∗In this case, difference between groups was significant. 𝑃 value = considered statistically significant if <0.05.