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Cancer patients with delirium in the emergency department: A frequent and distressing problem that calls for better assessment
Author(s) -
Lawlor Peter G.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.30132
Subject(s) - delirium , medicine , emergency department , distressing , demographics , cancer , intensive care medicine , population , medical emergency , emergency medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , sociology , chemistry , demography
Delirium is acknowledged as a common complication of cancer that frequently results in a visit to the emergency department, yet it is often poorly assessed, and the diagnosis is missed as a result. Because age is a major risk factor for delirium and population demographics are changing, there is a critical need to develop optimal delirium screening strategies for cancer patients who access this point of care. See also pages 2918–24.