Association between polypharmacy and the persistence of delirium: a retrospective cohort study.

Ken KurisuDaisuke MiyabeYoshiko FurukawaOsamu ShibayamaKazuhiro Yoshiuchi

Published in: BioPsychoSocial medicine (2020)

We discovered an association between polypharmacy and worsening courses of delirium and hypothesize that polypharmacy might be a prognostic factor for delirium.

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