Delirium in advanced cancer: Screening for the incidence on admission to an inpatient hospice unit

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1045-1048

  Rainsford, Suzanne ^a   Rosenberg, John P ^b,c   Bullen, Tracey ^b  

^a Calvary HealthCare ACT   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFUSION ASSESSMENT METHOD; DELIRIUM; DELIRIUM RATING SCALE REVISED 98; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; RECOGNITION; SCREENING TEST; COMPLICATION; HOSPICE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 84907016751     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2013.0646     Document Type: Article

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