|Videos|May 24, 2021
Delirium: Criteria, Consequences, and Risk Factors
Author(s)John J. Miller, MD
Tackling the ABCs of delirium--a challenging diagnosis.
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In the first episode of this new series on delirium, John J. Miller, MD, considers 3 crucial questions: What is it? How do we diagnose it? What do we do to work it up?
Dr Miller is medical director, Brain Health, Exeter, New Hampshire; Editor in Chief, Psychiatric TimesTM; staff psychiatrist, Seacoast Mental Health Center, Exeter; Consulting Psychiatrist, Exeter Hospital, Exeter; Consulting Psychiatrist, Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts.
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