Search

Showing total 1 results

Refine your results

1 results

1. Delirium in COVID-19: common, distressing and linked with poor outcomes. . . can we do better?

Author

Peterson, Alexandra, Marengoni, Alessandra, Shenkin, Susan, and MacLullich, Alasdair

Subjects
*HEALTH policy, *COVID-19, *AGE distribution, *DISEASE incidence, *DELIRIUM, *DISEASE prevalence
Abstract

The author comments on a research paper on the prevalence, incidence and mortality of delirium in the COVID-19 disease, which references a study by S. C. Shao et al., published in a 2021 issue of "Age Ageing". Topics discussed include the characteristics of delirium, the challenges facing health professionals in managing delirium in patients with COVID-19, findings on its prevalence on admission and during hospitalization, and the study's implications for care for patients with delirium.

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF