Reversibility of delirium in terminally ill patients and predictors of mortality

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 848-854

  Leonard, M ^a,b   Raju, B ^a   Conroy, M ^b   Donnelly, S ^b   Trzepacz, P T ^c,d,e,f   Saunders, J ^g   Meagher, David ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Milford Care Centre   (Ireland)

^c ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive failure; Confusion; Delirium; Palliative reversibility; Prognosis; Rerminal illness; Reversibility

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE TEST FOR DELIRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DELIRIUM; DELIRIUM RATING SCALE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SLEEP DISORDER; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; CONVALESCENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 58149252493     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308094520     Document Type: Article

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