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    Delirium : acute confusional states in palliative medicine / Augusto Caraceni and Luigi Grassi.

    • Title:Delirium : acute confusional states in palliative medicine / Augusto Caraceni and Luigi Grassi.
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    • Author/Creator:Caraceni, Augusto.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Grassi, Luigi.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Delirium.
      Palliative treatment.
    • Medical Subjects: Delirium.
      Palliative Care--methods.
    • Description:xviii, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-218) and index.
    • ISBN:0192631993 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. Delirium: historical concepts and current definitions
      2. Pathophysiology
      3. Epidemiology
      4. Clinical phenomenology
      5. Differential diagnosis
      6. Frequent aetiologies
      7. Frequent clinical subtypes - delirium in special populations
      8. Diagnostic assessment
      9. Management
      10. Family issues
      App. 1. Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
      App. 2. Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)
      App. 3. Confusion Assessment Method ICU (CAM-ICU)
      App. 4. Delirium Rating Scale (DRS)
      App. 5. Delirium Rating Scale, revised, 1998 (DRS-R-98)
      App. 6. Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS)
      App. 7. Confusion State Evaluation (CSE) Rating scale for assessment of delirium.
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