Advancing the Care of Delirium and Comorbid Dementia.
Alessandro MorandiWittmann MariaFederico BilottaGiuseppe BellelliPublished in: Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Delirium is defined as an acute neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by a disturbance in attention and awareness, which develops over a short period of time, with additional disturbances in cognition which are not explained by a pre-existing cognitive impairment [...].
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