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Delirium at the end of life

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2021
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Knoepfel, S. O. C. (2021). Delirium at the end of life (No. 3; Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 268–273). (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-208119

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BackgroundThe general in-hospital mortality and interrelationship with delirium are vastly understudied. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the rates of in-hospital mortality and terminal delirium.MethodIn this prospective cohort study of 28,860 patients from 37 services including 718 in-hospital deaths, mortality rates and prevalence of terminal delirium were determined with simple logistic regressions and their respective odds ratios (ORs).ResultsAlthough overall in-hospital mortality was low (2.5%), substantial variance between

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  • Knoepfel, Silvana Olga Camilla

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Faculty of Medicine

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English

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Züricjh

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2021-06-01

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2021-10-27

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Knoepfel, S. O. C. (2021). Delirium at the end of life (No. 3; Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 268–273). (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-208119

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