1. Dementia
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Paul Yates, Jenny Van der Steen, Gregory Savage, Lynn Rochester, Daniel Strech, Paul Thomas Francis, Jane Hughes, Leon Flicker, Simon Scalzo, Nicola Lautenschlager, SIMONE LISTA, Kirsten Jane Moore, Phyllis Chua, Claudia Cooper, Jill Manthorpe, Alan Bensoussan, Peter Nestor, Caroline Sutcliffe, Genevieve Steiner-Lim, Osvaldo Almeida, Ian McKeith, Colin Masters, Iracema Leroi, Rowan Harwood, Clare Mackay, Samantha Loi, Sube Banerjee, Gill Livingston, Jason Warren, and David Challis
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03 medical and health sciences ,medicine.medical_specialty ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Delirium ,medicine.symptom ,Psychiatry ,Psychology ,Greek literature ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging - Abstract
Despite delirium being described in the Greek literature as far back as 400 bc, current levels of knowledge and practice, in comparison to other medical conditions, lag considerably behind. However, over the past 20 years, there has been signicant progress in the way that we understand, conceptualize and manage delirium (Maclullich et al., 2013).
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- 2017
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