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Six Questions to Protect Elderly Patients
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Hospital delirium affects about a third of patients over 70. This week, Pam Belluck reported in The Times on the risk that elderly patients may become confused and delirious while in the hospital.
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/six-questions-to-protect-elde...
Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly
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No one who knows Justin Kaplan would ever have expected this. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian with a razor intellect, Mr. Kaplan, 84, became profoundly delirious while hospitalized for pneumonia la
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