Behavioural and psychiatric symptoms in people with dementia admitted to the acute hospital: Prospective cohort study

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 189-196

  Sampson, Elizabeth L ^a,b   White, Nicola ^a   Leurent, Baptiste ^a   Scott, Sharon ^a   Lord, Kathryn ^a   Round, Jeff ^a   Jones, Louise ^a  

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

^b NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HOSPITAL; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOURAL AND PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOM OF DEMENTIA; CHEST INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DSM-IV; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT STAGING SCALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SLEEP DISORDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84906979033     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.130948     Document Type: Article

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