Alcohol-related cognitive impairment in New South Wales hospital patients aged 50 years and over

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 985-992

  Draper, Brian ^a,b   Karmel, Rosemary ^c   Gibson, Diane ^d   Peut, Ann ^c   Anderson, Phil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Hospital; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DETOXIFICATION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL RELATED DEMENTIA; ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEAD INJURY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN; STROKE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 80555139027     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048674.2011.610297     Document Type: Article

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