Delirium: a symptom of how hospital care is failing older persons and a window to improve quality of hospital care
Open Access
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 106 (5) , 565-573
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9343(99)00070-4
Abstract
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