Challenges and opportunities in understanding dementia and delirium in the acute hospital

Thomas A Jackson; John R F Gladman; Rowan H Harwood; Alasdair M J MacLullich; Elizabeth L Sampson; Bart Sheehan; Daniel H J Davis

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002247

Challenges and opportunities in understanding dementia and delirium in the acute hospital

Thomas A Jackson, John R F Gladman, Rowan H Harwood, Alasdair M J MacLullich, Elizabeth L Sampson, Bart Sheehan, Daniel H J Davis

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Abstract

In an Essay, Andrew Jackson and colleagues discuss challenges in the diagnosis and management of older people with dementia and delirium in acute hospitals.

Original language	English
Article number	e1002247
Journal	PLoS Medicine
Volume	14
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002247
Publication status	Published - 14 Mar 2017

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© 2017 Jackson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Keywords

Dementia
Death rates
Cognitive impairment
Hospitals
Geriatrics
Inpatients
Geriatric Psychiatry
dementia with Lewy dodies

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