What criteria should be used for the diagnosis of delirium?

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 364-367

  Liptzin, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a BAYSTATE HEALTH   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Diagnostic criteria

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DELIRIUM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; DELIRIUM; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MANUALS;

EID: 0032812865     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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