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胃肠外科手术患者术后谵妄预测模型的开发与验证

 

Authors Huang Z , Deng Y, Li Q, Hu T, Xu X, Luo Y

Received 26 September 2025

Accepted for publication 9 February 2026

Published 20 February 2026 Volume 2026:19 534370

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CEG.S534370

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Professor Vipul Yagnik

Zhihua Huang,1,* Yang Deng,2,* Qiang Li,1 Tianran Hu,1 Xiaoying Xu,1 Yan Luo1 

1Department of Anesthesiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, People’s Republic of China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence: Yan Luo, Department of Anesthesiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 197 Ruijin Er Road, Huang Pu District, Shanghai, 200025, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 21 64370045, Email ly11087@rjh.com.cn

Background: Postoperative delirium (POD) is a critical and prevalent postoperative complication challenging to major surgeries, associated with the increased morbidity and mortality rate, prolonged hospitalization, and higher healthcare expenditure. Despite the availability of POD prediction tools, none of the models deals particularly with the unique preoperative risks of gastrointestinal surgery patients, which is the critical gap in the present clinical practice. Thus, the objectives of the study were the development and validation of an easy-to-use preoperative prediction model for POD specifically for patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery, to narrow this gap by a specific population tool.
Methods: A total of 369 patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery were analyzed retrospectively. Univariate analysis was used to identify candidate variables, and a multivariate logistic regression model was built using with statistically significant predictors (P< 0.05). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was used as a measure of model performance. Internal validation was done though 20 times 5-fold cross-validation of the models as a measure of robustness.
Results: Univariate analysis identified four statistically significant factors for POD: advanced age (OR = 4.19, 95% CI: 1.68– 11.91), lower educational level (OR = 0.25, 95% CI: 0.10– 0.60), history of cerebrovascular disease (OR = 6.59, 95% CI: 2.55– 16.47), and elevated preoperative serum glucose level (OR = 2.68, 95% CI: 1.03– 6.54). All these factors were included in the final POD prediction model, which proved to have strong discriminative power (AUC = 0.810, 95% CI: 0.700– 0.921) and good calibration (Hosmer–Lemeshow test, P = 0.436).
Conclusion: This model is the first easy-to-use preoperative prediction model of POD particularly developed for gastrointestinal surgical patients and exhibits high discriminatory accuracy. It enables anesthesiologists to promptly stratify the risk of POD, which will allow them to implement preventive interventions in time.

Keywords: postoperative delirium, gastrointestinal surgery, risk factors, prediction model, nomogram