Delirium in long-term care setting: Indicator to severe morbidity

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 270-275

  Arinzon, Zeev ^a,b   Peisakh, Alexander ^c   Schrire, Samuel ^c   Berner, Yitshal Noam ^a,d  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Frieda Schiff Warburg Geriatric Ctr   (Israel)

^c Leumit Research Institue   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bronchopneumonia; Delirium in elderly; Geriatric long term care; Infection

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DELIRIUM; DELIRIUM RATING SCALE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79953083556     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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