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- Title
Delirium in older emergency department patients: recognition, risk factors, and psychomotor subtypes.
- Authors
Han, Jin H; Zimmerman, Eli E; Cutler, Nathan; Schnelle, John; Morandi, Alessandro; Dittus, Robert S; Storrow, Alan B; Ely, E Wesley
- Abstract
Missing delirium in the emergency department (ED) has been described as a medical error, yet this diagnosis is frequently unrecognized by emergency physicians (EPs). Identifying a subset of patients at high risk for delirium may improve delirium screening compliance by EPs. The authors sought to determine how often delirium is missed in the ED and how often these missed cases are detected by admitting hospital physicians at the time of admission, to identify delirium risk factors in older ED patients, and to characterize delirium by psychomotor subtypes in the ED setting.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 3, p193
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00339.x