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Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Study finds decrease in postoperative delirium in elderly patients
Published in Health Risk Factor Week, February 2nd, 2010
"These data show that, for every 3.5 to 4.7 patients treated in this manner, one incident of delirium will be prevented," says Frederick Sieber, M.D., primary investigator of the study from the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. "Therefore, interventions capable of reducing the occurrence of postoperative delirium would...
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