Older trauma patients are at high risk of delirium, especially those with underlying dementia or baseline frailty

BACKGROUND: Given the increasing numbers of older patients presenting with trauma, and the potential influence of delirium on outcomes, we sought to investigate the proportion of such patients who were diagnosed with delirium during their stay—and patient factors associated therewith—and the potenti...

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Autores principales: Ní Chróinín, Danielle, Francis, Nevenka, Wong, Pearl, Kim, Yewon David, Nham, Susan, D'Amours, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33997291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2020-000639

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33997291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2020-000639

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