Cross-cultural validation of the Chart-based Delirium Identification Instrument: Using a chart-based method to identify delirium in hospitalized older adults

Thiago J Avelino-Silva^{1

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4}, Maria Amelia Santilli², Julio Cesar Garcia de Alencar⁵, Claudia Szlejf⁶, Flavia Barreto Garcez^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Laboratorio de Investigacao Medica em Envelhecimento (LIM 66), Servico de Geriatria, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
³ Atlantic Fellowship, Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁵ Faculdade de Medicina de Bauru, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Bauru, Brazil.
⁶ Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁷ Hospital Universitario, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil.

Thiago J Avelino-Silva et al. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2025 Feb.

. 2025 Feb;25(2):319-321.

doi: 10.1111/ggi.15031. Epub 2025 Jan 16.

Thiago J Avelino-Silva^{1

2

3

4}, Maria Amelia Santilli², Julio Cesar Garcia de Alencar⁵, Claudia Szlejf⁶, Flavia Barreto Garcez^{2

7}

¹ Division of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Laboratorio de Investigacao Medica em Envelhecimento (LIM 66), Servico de Geriatria, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
³ Atlantic Fellowship, Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁵ Faculdade de Medicina de Bauru, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Bauru, Brazil.
⁶ Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁷ Hospital Universitario, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil.

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