Elderly hospital patients with delirium more likely to die within a year

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

Hospital patients over 65 who are referred for a psychiatric consultation and found to have delirium are more likely than those without delirium to die within one year following diagnosis, according to a new study published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry.

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