Psychiatry investigation
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Psychiatry investigation · Dec 2011
Early assessment of delirium in elderly patients after hip surgery.
This study is intended to identify predictive factors of delirium, including risk factors and prodromal symptoms. ⋯ Medical professionals must pay attention to behavioral, cognitive changes and risk factors in elderly patients undergoing hip surgery and to the prodromal phase of delirium. K-DRS-98 may help in identifying the prodromal symptoms of delirium in elderly patients after hip surgery.