Delirium is prevalent in older hospital inpatients and associated with adverse outcomes: results of a prospective multi-centre study on World Delirium Awareness Day

BACKGROUND: Delirium is a common severe neuropsychiatric condition secondary to physical illness, which predominantly affects older adults in hospital. Prior to this study, the UK point prevalence of delirium was unknown. We set out to ascertain the point prevalence of delirium across UK hospitals a...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6911703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31837711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1458-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6911703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31837711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1458-7

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