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Emergency doctors often fail to detect delirium in advanced cancer patients

Delirium is the most common neuro-psychiatric syndrome in patients with advanced cancer but it often goes undetected in the emergency department, new research suggests. 
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Posted 16 August 2016 - 00:49
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