The recognition and documentation of delirium in hospital palliative care inpatients

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-136

  Barnes, Julia ^a   Kite, Suzanne ^a   Kumar, Manoj ^b  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Palliative Medicine   (India)

Author keywords

Assessment; Confusion Assessment Method; Delirium; Hospital; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGORITHMS; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DOCUMENTATION; ENGLAND; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956986479     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951509990873     Document Type: Article

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