Editing Delirium (section)

==Society and culture==
Delirium is one of the oldest forms of mental disorder known in medical history.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Berrios GE | title = Delirium and confusion in the 19th century: a conceptual history | journal = The British Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 139 | issue = 5 | pages = 439–449 | date = November 1981 | pmid = 7037094 | doi = 10.1192/bjp.139.5.439 | s2cid = 145585758 }}</ref> The Roman author [[Aulus Cornelius Celsus]] used the term to describe mental disturbance from head trauma or fever in his work ''[[De Medicina]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Adamis D, Treloar A, Martin FC, Macdonald AJ | title = A brief review of the history of delirium as a mental disorder | journal = History of Psychiatry | volume = 18 | issue = 72 Pt 4 | pages = 459–469 | date = December 2007 | pmid = 18590023 | doi = 10.1177/0957154X07076467 | url = https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00570887/document | access-date = 2019-07-09 | url-status = live | s2cid = 24424207 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190705211533/https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00570887/document | archive-date = 2019-07-05 }}</ref> Sims (1995, p.&nbsp;31) points out a "superb detailed and lengthy description" of delirium in "The Stroller's Tale" from [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Sims A |title=Symptoms in the mind: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology |publisher=W. B. Saunders |location=Philadelphia |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7020-2627-0 }}</ref><ref>Dickens C (1837) ''The Pickwick Papers''. Available for free on [[Project Gutenberg]].</ref> Historically, delirium has also been noted for its cognitive sequelae. For instance, the English medical writer [[Philip Barrow]] noted in 1583 that if delirium (or "frensy") resolves, it may be followed by a loss of memory and reasoning power.<ref>{{Cite book| vauthors = Barrough P |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A04936.0001.001/1:6.15?amt2=40;amt3=40;cite1=Barrough;cite1restrict=author;hi=0;rgn=div2;view=fulltext;q1=memory|title=The methode of phisicke conteyning the causes, signes, and cures of invvard diseases in mans body from the head to the foote. VVhereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our phisitians commonly vse at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, & names of {{sic|ech|nolink=y}} medicine.|publisher=By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blacke-friars by Lud-gate|year=1583|location=London|pages=18|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2020-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730154704/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A04936.0001.001/1:6.15?amt2=40;amt3=40;cite1=Barrough;cite1restrict=author;hi=0;rgn=div2;view=fulltext;q1=memory|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Costs===
In the US, the cost of a hospital admission for people with delirium is estimated at between $16k and $64k, suggesting the national burden of delirium may range from $38 bn to $150 bn per year (2008 estimate).<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Leslie DL, Marcantonio ER, Zhang Y, Leo-Summers L, Inouye SK | title = One-year health care costs associated with delirium in the elderly population | journal = Archives of Internal Medicine | volume = 168 | issue = 1 | pages = 27–32 | date = January 2008 | pmid = 18195192 | pmc = 4559525 | doi = 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.4 }}</ref> In the UK, the cost is estimated as £13k per admission.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Akunne A, Murthy L, Young J | title = Cost-effectiveness of multi-component interventions to prevent delirium in older people admitted to medical wards | journal = Age and Ageing | volume = 41 | issue = 3 | pages = 285–291 | date = May 2012 | pmid = 22282171 | doi = 10.1093/ageing/afr147 | doi-access = free }}</ref>