Delirium: Comparison of four predictive models in hospitalized critically ill elderly patients

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-35

  Eden, Brenda M ^a   Foreman, Marquis D ^b   Sisk, Rebecca ^b  

^a Decatur Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELIRIUM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; DELIRIUM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031989379     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0897-1897(98)80051-7     Document Type: Article

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