Delirium in older patients in surgical intensive care units

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-154

  Balas, Michele C ^a,c   Deutschman, Clifford S ^a,c   Sullivan Marx, Eileen M ^a,c   Strumpf, Neville E ^a,b,c   Alston, Robert P ^c   Richmond, Therese S ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Center for Health Disparities Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Critical care; Delirium; Intensive care; Older adult; Surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547326611     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2007.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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