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Interventions are humanities-based and included sensory aide assistance, completion of \u201cget to know me\u201d forms, and conversation. Data were retrospectively acquired from electronic health records and compared to a control cohort from another medical unit. Delirium occurrence was captured when the nursing confusion assessment method (CAM) documentation was positive, or a clinician documented delirium diagnoses. Cohorts were matched 1:2 (DOVE vs Control) by age, gender, DRA score, month\/year of admission, and length of hospital stay.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 168 patients received interventions by DOVE volunteers, of which 139 were matched with 261 controls. In-hospital delirium occurrence was lower in the DOVE cohort compared to the control cohort (46.8% vs 56.7%; p\u2009=\u2009.015). Conditional logistic regressions demonstrated a lower odds ratio (OR) for delirium occurrence, 0.55 (95% confidence interval [CI]; 0.34\u20130.89; p\u2009=\u2009.015) associated with DOVE intervention. Subgroup analyses of delirium occurrence among patients with DRA score of 3\u20134 demonstrated an OR of 0.56 (95% CI; 0.31\u20131.01; p\u2009=\u2009.053) between the DOVE and control cohorts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion and Implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In-hospital delirium occurrence was \u223c10% lower among DOVE cohort patients. 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