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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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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7598/842 Updated information and services can be found at: These include: Data supplement http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7598/842/DC1 "References" References http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7598/842#otherarticles 6 online articles that cite this article can be accessed at: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7598/842#BIBL This article cites 19 articl...
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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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A fall prevention programme for older long-stay patients in a 95 bedded District Hospital was undertaken. Data on falls and resulting injuries for the year prior to the intervention were compared with equivalent data after one year (Year 1) and after two years (Year 2) of the intervention. In the pre-intervention year 25% of patients had at least one fall compared with 20.9% and 17.4% in Year 1...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Geriatric Care
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2465-1397,2465-1109
DOI: 10.4081/gc.2017.7146