Mental status change in older surgical patients: Cognition, depression, and other comorbidity

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-46

  Stockton, Patricia ^a   Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a   Billig, Nathan ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 0033987674     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-200002000-00006     Document Type: Article

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