Delirium and Neuropsychological Recovery Among Emergency General Surgery Survivors

Exclusion Criteria

• •A self-reported diagnosis of cancer with short life expectancy
• •A history of dementing illnesses and other neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson disease, or vascular dementia, or current prescription of anti-dementia medication, or ruled out by Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) score defining dementia; a history of significant traumatic brain injury
• •Acute or subacute neurologic deficit expected to prevent independent living after hospital discharge, e.g., a history of a significant traumatic brain injury
• •Have any spinal cord injury with persistent neurologic deficit at the time of study enrollment
• •Incarcerated or homeless at the time of study enrollment
• •Acquired neurologic injury (stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral edema/swelling, anoxic brain injury, or any other acute/subacute severe neurologic deficit) as the admitting diagnosis or a new event during the course of hospitalization (confirmed by EMR)
• •A history of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia (confirmed by EMR)