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Despite increasing awareness in medical specialties, understanding among surgical providers remains unknown.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"objectives\">\n                    <jats:title>Objective(s)<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We aimed to (1) understand surgical providers\u2019 self-perceived knowledge of and confidence in identifying and managing POD, and (2) define the perceived importance of POD among surgical providers, relative to other complications.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"methods\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An anonymous electronic survey was distributed to surgical providers across three hospitals in an academic medical system.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Seventy-six of 267 (28.5%) responded. The majority were somewhat (n=48, 63%) or very confident (n=12, 16%) identifying POD, however, few used validated tools (n=18, 24%). Most were somewhat (n=40, 52.6%) or very confident (n=9, 11.8%) managing POD. Few consulted geriatrics or other fields for co-management (n=23, 30.2%). Among six common complications, delirium consistently ranked third or fourth in importance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"conclusions\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Future work should focus on increasing the use of validated tools and building interdisciplinary initiatives for co-management.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.56392\/001c.161767","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,21]],"date-time":"2026-05-21T18:18:02Z","timestamp":1779387482000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Postoperative Delirium: A Survey of Perceptions Among Surgical Providers"],"prefix":"10.56392","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9754-3631","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Julia R.","family":"Berian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison","department":["Surgery"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9988-9572","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ben L.","family":"Zarzaur","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison","department":["Surgery"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0295-3457","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sanjay","family":"Mohanty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02ets8c94","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Indiana University School of Medicine","department":["Surgery"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1625-2187","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Farah A.","family":"Kaiksow","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison","department":["Medicine"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0576-3894","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Blair P.","family":"Golden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison","department":["Medicine"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"35609","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,21]]},"reference":[{"issue":"5","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"912","DOI":"10.1097\/TA.0000000000000611","article-title":"Impact of specific postoperative complications on the outcomes of emergency general surgery patients","volume":"78","author":"C. 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