Contribution of cognitive impairment, depression, and psychosis to the outcome of agitated geropsychiatric inpatients with dementia

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 299-303

  Kunik, Mark E ^a   Graham, David P ^a   Snow Turek, A Lynn ^b   Molinari, Victor A ^a   Orengo, Claudia A ^a   Workman, Richard H ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; THOUGHT DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031779129     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199805000-00006     Document Type: Article

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