Inpatient care for persons with Alzheimer's disease

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Sparks, Martha B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Assessment; Hospital inpatient; Management

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; GALANTAMINE; MEMANTINE; RIVASTIGMINE; TACRINE; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOREXIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EATING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FATIGUE; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INSOMNIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIVER TOXICITY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; VOMITING; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; COMMUNICATION; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RISK FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949143579     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CNQ.0000306399.09777.24     Document Type: Review

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