Delirium in the emergency department: An independent predictor of death within 6 months

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Han, Jin H ^a   Shintani, Ayumi ^a   Eden, Svetlana ^a   Morandi, Alessandro ^a   Solberg, Laurence M ^a,b   Schnelle, John ^a   Dittus, Robert S ^a,b   Storrow, Alan B ^a   Ely, E Wesley ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Tennessee Valley Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; DELIRIUM; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952965251     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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