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A quality improvement approach to cognitive assessment on hospice admission: could we use the 4AT or Short CAM?
Background Prevalence studies show that 13%–42% of patients admitted to specialist palliative care inpatient units have delirium. Symptoms of delirium are often subtle and easily missed, or misdiagnosed as fatigue or depression, and so the use of a screening tool could improve early identification a...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5609350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28959786 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000153 |