Delirium in Hospitalized Older Persons: Outcomes and Predictors

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 809-815

  Pompei, Peter ^a   Foreman, Marquis ^a   Rudberg, Mark A ^a   Inouye, Sharon K ^b   Braund, Victoria ^a   Cassel, Christine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0027938490     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1994.tb06551.x     Document Type: Article

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