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An educational intervention can prevent delirium on acute medical wards.
BACKGROUND Delirium is a common disorder in hospitalised older people and established cases may have a poor outcome that is not readily improved by intervention. Prevention of cases through education of medical and nursing staff has not been fully studied. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that an educational package for medical and nursing staff would both reduce the number of incident cases...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afi031