Mortality in medical-surgical inpatients referred for psychiatric consultation

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-346

  Tennen, Gayla B ^a   Rundell, James R ^b   Stevens, Susanna R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Consultation liaison; Delirium; Mortality; Patient outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67449087375     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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