The Association between Delirium and In-Hospital Falls: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Delirium Screening Program

Table 1

Demographics of delirious and nondelirious patients.

	bCAM or CAM-ICU
	Negative (n = 25,948)	Positive (n = 3,707)
Outcome: fall (%)	0.7	2.8
Age (mean, SD)	57.3 ± 17.2	63.1 ± 16.6
Age (median)	60.0	65.0
Age group (%)
<50	30.6	19.3
50–64	30.5	28.6
65–79	31.3	37.5
80+	7.7	14.6
Gender (%)
Male	48.8	52.0
Female	51.2	48.0
Race (%)
Black	34.9	38.4
Other	3.5	3.2
White	61.6	58.4
Marital status (%)
Married	48.8	43.0
Other	18.8	24.4
Single	32.5	32.6
Distance (mean, SD)	65.4 ± 127	62.6 ± 150
Distance (median)	39.6	28.6
Far to MUSC (distance >50 miles)	46.2	44.2
Poverty (%)	29.6	31.6
Score of CCI (mean, SD)	4.0 ± 3.2	5.1 ± 3.1
Score of CCI (median)	3.0	5.0
Score of CCI (%)
0	12.8	5.3
1-2	25.6	16.2
3-4	25.3	25.9
5+	36.3	52.6
Medication exposure (%)
Antipsychotic	27.5	51.3
Anticholinergics	64.4	55.3
Opioid	82.9	78.6
Benzo	37.7	61.9
ICU during hospitalization (%)	15.3	62.8
Alcohol abuse (%)	6.2	14.0
Dementia (%)	3.1	14.9
Myocardial infarction (%)	11.9	18.1
Congestive heart failure (%)	18.7	27.1
Cerebrovascular disease (%)	8.6	26.5
Chronic pulmonary disease (%)	20.4	22.9
Rheumatoid arthritis (%)	5.1	5.8
Peptic ulcer disease (%)	1.6	2.5
Uncomplicated diabetes (%)	10.9	10.6
Complicated diabetes (%)	18.2	25.3
Hemiplegia (%)	3.0	11.8
Renal disease (%)	19.5	25.6
Cancer (%)	21.1	18.3
AIDS/HIV (%)	1.3	1.7
Liver disease (%)	7.6	12.1
Service groups (%)
ICU	0.3	0.6
Medicine	47.1	53.4
Neurology	14.4	23.5
OBGYN	2.4	0.7
Surgery	35.9	21.7

Variables that did not have a value <0.05 compared to bCAM or CAM-ICU negative.