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Delirium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

A. S. Henderson
A. S. Henderson
Affiliation:
National Health & Medical Research Council, Social Psychiatry Research Unit, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Extract

The etymology of delirium is highly expressive: it comes from the Latin de, meaning down or away from, and lira, a furrow or track in the fields; that is, to be off the track. The precise features of the syndrome have been specified in DSM-111-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987) and in the Draft ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria for Research (World Health Organization, 1990).

Type
The Impact of Care Delivery Setting and Patient Selection in Shaping Research Questions and Results
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , December 1991 , pp. 349 - 351
Copyright
© 1991 Springer Publishing Company

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