Dementia in general hospital patients with clinical features.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Dementia in general hospital patients with clinical features [Abstract] Objective of dementia in general hospital patients with clinical features. Methods in January 2009 to July general hospital consultation liaison psychiatry patients diagnosed as dementia of the clinical features of 65 patients were analyzed and compared with After 242 cases of clear non-consultation were compared with dementia. Results The mean age of patients with dementia than non-dementia patients ((81 + -7 years) vs (59 + -18) years, P lt;0.05). dementia group mainly from Department of Respiratory Medicine (27.7%), older subjects (24.6%) and bone surgery (16.9%) higher than non-dementia group (11.2%, 12.8%, 5.8%), while those from surgical neurology, and other less (10.8 % vs 24.8%, 3.1% vs 5.8%), these differences were statistically significant (P lt;0.05). dementia group to conduct disorder, psychotic episodes, cognitive impairment as the cause of the proportion of consultations (33.8%, 18.5% 13.8%) than non-dementia group (8.3%, 7.9%, 2.5%), the difference was statistically significant (P lt;0.05). dementia group suffering from respiratory diseases (29.2%) were higher than non-dementia group (14%) The difference was statistically significant (P lt;0.05). dementia patients suffer from the types of diseases (4.6 + -2.1) than non-dementia group (3.2 + -2.3), the difference was significant (P lt;0.05). After psychiatric consultation 96.9% of the patients with the drug. Conclusion General Hospital, lack of knowledge of dementia, for respiratory system diseases, trauma performance in elderly patients hospitalized with behavioral disorders, mental illness made the possibility of dementia should be considered. [Keywords:] dementia, General Hospital, hospital patients, behavioral and psychological symptoms Cognitive decline, neuropsychiatric symptoms and everyday social life dysfunction is the major clinical manifestations of dementia. In which behavioral an