Delirium: Masquerades and Misdiagnosis in Elderly Inpatients

1 November 1990

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Vol. 38 (11) , 1235-1238
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1990.tb01505.x

Abstract

Delirium is an organic mental disorder defined as transient, fluctuating global dysfunction of cognition. It is common in elderly medical inpatients, yet its varied presentation is often missed or misdiagnosed.

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