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- Title
Precipitating factors for delirium in hospitalized elderly persons.
- Authors
Inouye, Sharon K.; Charpentier, Peter A.
- Abstract
Presents a study on delirium in hospitalized elderly. Specific objectives being to identify precipitating factors, develop a predictive model and examine the interrelationship of baseline vulnerability and precipitating factors; Other studies on the same subject; Hypothesis that delirium is multifactorial like other geriatric syndromes.
- Subjects
DELIRIUM in old age; HOSPITAL patients
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996, Vol 275, Issue 11, p852
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1996.03530350034031