The diagnosis of delirium in 80 emergency unit patients

We evaluated the initial and final diagnosis of 80 patients with delirium arriving at the emergence unit of a university hospital in a large Brazilian city over a period of 30 months up to December 1991. The diagnosis was based on the DSM-IIIR criteria. Patients with a known history of head trauma o...

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Main Authors: AFONSO CARLOS NEVES, RICARDO DE CASTRO CINTRA SESSO, HENRIQUE BALLALAI FERRAZ, SÍLVIO FRANCISCO, JOÃO BAPTISTA DOS REIS-FILHO
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Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 1998-06-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1998000200002&tlng=en
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