deliprecas

-The DELIPRECAS model allows to predict early in the preoperative period the risk that patients who will undergo cardiac surgery to develop delirium in the postoperative period. It consists of 4 easily available preoperative risk factors and has a high predictive value. The model has been developed and validated through a multicenter observational study that included 698 cardiac surgery patients. The area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUROC) of the model was 0.825 (95% CI 0.76-0.89) and its validation 0.81 (95% CI 0.76-0.85).