Follow-up: Delirium in SNOMED is classified as a descendant of 111479008 |Organic mental disorder (disorder)| which in turn is a subtype of 74732009 |Mental disorder (disorder)| and 81308009 |Disorder of brain (disorder)|.
Descendants of Organic Mental Disorder include: 52448006 |Dementia (disorder)| 2776000 |Delirium (disorder)| 286933003 |Confusional state (disorder)|
Looking at ICD-11 and DSM-V delirium and dementia are now subtypes of neurocognitive disorders.
Questions:
Is the current concept Organic mental disorder still clinically useful?