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Evidence-Based Practice Corner: Interprofessional Approaches to Postoperative Delirium

For older adults undergoing surgery, delirium is a common and serious complication. Older adults have a 15 to 50 percent chance of experiencing delirium following a major operation. And it’s older adults “who, as a group, undergo more than one-third of all inpatient operations in the United States annually,” notes Thomas Robinson, MD, MS, FACS, …