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Risk factors for dementia after critical illness in elderly medicare beneficiaries

INTRODUCTION: Hospitalization increases the risk of a subsequent diagnosis of dementia. We aimed to identify diagnoses or events during a hospitalization requiring critical care that are associated with a subsequent dementia diagnosis in the elderly. METHODS: A cohort study of a random 5% sample of...

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Autores principales: Guerra, Carmen, Linde-Zwirble, Walter T, Wunsch, Hannah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23245397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc11901