Detection of delirium in the acute hospital

Age and Ageing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 131-135

  Collins, Noel ^a   Blanchard, Martin R ^b,c   Tookman, Adrian ^b,d   Sampson, Elizabeth L ^b,e  

^a CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST PANCRAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e ST ANN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HUMAN ALBUMIN;

ABBREVIATED MENTAL TEST SCORE; AGED; APACHE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LONDON; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77949418002     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp201     Document Type: Letter

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