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Table 1 Baseline and Follow-up Standardized Assessments

From: Shaping anesthetic techniques to reduce post-operative delirium (SHARP) study: a protocol for a prospective pragmatic randomized controlled trial to evaluate spinal anesthesia with targeted sedation compared with general anesthesia in older adults undergoing lumbar spine fusion surgery

Neuropsychological Assessments

 Mini-Mental Status Examination a

 Verbal Fluency Trials from the Calibrated Ideational Fluency Assessment

 Trail Making Test b

 Digit Span Forwards/Backwards

Function, Disability, and Health-Related Quality of Life Assessments

 Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

 Oswestry Disability Index

 12-Item Short Form Health Survey

 Pain scores

  1. aIn the case of a telephone interview, the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status is used
  2. bThe Trail Making Test is not administered in the case of telephone interview
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BMC Anesthesiology

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