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Practice guidelines for delirium

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management in hospital and long-term care. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); 2023 Jan 18. PMID: 31971702.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management. London; 2019 Mar. PMID: 31971702.

Bush SH, Lawlor PG, Ryan K, Centeno C, Lucchesi M, Kanji S, Siddiqi N, Morandi A, Davis DHJ, Laurent M, Schofield N, Barallat E, Ripamonti CI; ESMO Guidelines Committee. Delirium in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines. Ann Oncol. 2018 Oct 1;29(Suppl 4):iv143-iv165. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy147. PMID: 29992308.

American Geriatrics Society Expert Panel on Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults. American Geriatrics Society abstracted clinical practice guideline for postoperative delirium in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Jan;63(1):142-50. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13281. Epub 2014 Dec 12. PMID: 25495432; PMCID: PMC5901697.

American Psychiatric Association. American Psychiatric Association guidelines for the treatment of patients with delirium, 2010. Available at this link.


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