Journal article icon

Journal article

Delirium risk stratification in consecutive unselected admissions to acute medicine: validation of externally derived risk scores

Abstract:

reliable delirium risk stratification will aid recognition, anticipation and prevention and will facilitate targeting of resources in clinical practice as well as identification of at-risk patients for research. Delirium risk scores have been derived for acute medicine, but none has been prospectively validated in external cohorts. We therefore aimed to determine the reliability of externally derived risk scores in a consecutive cohort of older acute medicine patients.consecutive patients age...

Expand abstract
Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

Actions


Access Document


Files:
Publisher copy:
10.1093/ageing/afv177

Authors


More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Clinical Neurosciences
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Age and Ageing Journal website
Volume:
45
Issue:
1
Pages:
60-65
Publication date:
2016-01-12
Acceptance date:
2015-09-23
DOI:
EISSN:
1468-2834
ISSN:
0002-0729
Language:
English
Keywords:
Pubs id:
pubs:597874
UUID:
uuid:405c9aaf-2045-4397-b422-88c31e3d29a9
Local pid:
info:fedora/pubs:597874
Source identifiers:
597874
Deposit date:
2016-07-27

Terms of use


Views and Downloads






If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record

TO TOP