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Diagnosing delirium

JNNP Podcast

English - February 15, 2013 16:49 - 12 minutes - 4.48 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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This month we discuss the issue of diagnosing delirium in older hospital patients. Despite being linked to a range of poor outcomes, the syndrome is often missed and evidence on its measurement is sparse.


Professor Alasdair MacLullich tells us how a device he’s designed with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, which tests for delirium’s attentional deficits, can benefit clinicians and researchers.


See also:


Detecting deficits of sustained visual attention in delirium http://tinyurl.com/aswwbaw