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APA Practice Guidelines > Delirium
Treatment of Patients With Delirium
This guideline is more than 5 years old and has not yet been updated to ensure that it reflects current knowledge and practice. In accordance with national standards, including those of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Guideline Clearinghouse, this guideline can no longer be assumed to be current. The August 2004 Guideline Watch associated with this guideline provides additional information that has become available since publication of the guideline, but it is not a formal update of the guideline.
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CONTENTS
A. Coding System
B. General Considerations
A. Definition and Clinical Features
B. Associated Features
C. Differential Diagnosis
D. Prevalence and Course
E. Causes
F. Use of Formal Measures
A. Psychiatric Management
B. Environmental and Supportive Interventions
C. Somatic Interventions
A. Psychiatric Management
B. Choice of Specific Environmental and Supportive Interventions
C. Choice of Somatic Intervention
D. Issues of Competency and Consent
A. Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders
B. Comorbid General Medical Conditions
C. Advanced Age
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