Highlights
- •Delirium affects an estimated 14–56% of all hospitalized elderly patients.
- •Delirium remains grossly under-recognized in routine clinical practice.
- •Delirium should be handled as a true emergency.
- •Early diagnosis allows to counteract its permanent sequelae.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: November 15, 2016
Accepted:
November 6,
2016
Received in revised form:
November 4,
2016
Received:
October 9,
2016
Footnotes
☆Disclosure: The Authors have no conflict of interest to declare
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© 2016 European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
