TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental status change in older surgical patients
T2 - Cognition, depression, and other comorbidity
AU - Stockton, Patricia
AU - Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska
AU - Billig, Nathan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Grant RO1 MH42103 from the National Institute of Mental Health .
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The authors studied patients age 60 and over to assess the effect of elective surgery as a precipitating factor for cognitive decline over the postoperative year. They found an association between change in test performance and age, physical disability, and number of depressive symptoms. However, persistent decline in Mini-Mental State Exam scores was associated with identifiable factors related to the initial surgery in only 3/251 (1 percent of cases). Depression and new onset of acute illness were confounding factors in the assessment of cognitive decline.
AB - The authors studied patients age 60 and over to assess the effect of elective surgery as a precipitating factor for cognitive decline over the postoperative year. They found an association between change in test performance and age, physical disability, and number of depressive symptoms. However, persistent decline in Mini-Mental State Exam scores was associated with identifiable factors related to the initial surgery in only 3/251 (1 percent of cases). Depression and new onset of acute illness were confounding factors in the assessment of cognitive decline.
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U2 - 10.1097/00019442-200002000-00006
DO - 10.1097/00019442-200002000-00006
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C2 - 10648294
AN - SCOPUS:0033987674
SN - 1064-7481
VL - 8
SP - 40
EP - 46
JO - American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
JF - American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
IS - 1
ER -