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Preventing delirium in older people.
Delirium is a common presentation of acute physical illness in older people. When complicating a hospital admission it is an independent predictor of poor outcomes and is poorly detected. Up to 50% of delirium in older people develops after admission to hospital. The factors that predispose to and precipitate these incident cases are now recognized and many are related to the process of care. C...
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OBJECTIVE to examine the relative frequency and outcome of clinical subtypes of delirium in older hospital patients. DESIGN prospective observational study. SETTING acute geriatric unit in a teaching hospital. SUBJECTS 94 patients with delirium from a prospective study of 225 admissions. MEASUREMENTS clinical subtypes of delirium were determined according to predefined criteria. Charact...
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Delirium is an acute disorder of attention and cognition in elderly people (ie, those aged 65 years or older) that is common, serious, costly, under-recognised, and often fatal. A formal cognitive assessment and history of acute onset of symptoms are necessary for diagnosis. In view of the complex multifactorial causes of delirium, multicomponent non-pharmacological risk factor approaches are t...
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N Engl J Med 2006;354:1157-65. Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. Delirium, an acute decline in attention and cognition, is a common, life-threatening, and potentially preventable clinical syndrome among persons who are 65 years of age or older. The development of delirium often initiates a cascade of events culminating in the loss of independence, an increased risk of morbidity an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39169.706574.ad