A Model for Managing Delirious Older Inpatients
- 3 July 2003
- journal article
- website
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 51 (7) , 1031-1035
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2389.2003.51320.x
Abstract
Although multiple models of care exist to prevent the development of delirium in hospitalized patients, models for the management of patients for whom delirium is unpreventable or who already have de...Keywords
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