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ABC of palliative care — depression, anxiety, and confusion | Author(s) | Jennifer Barraclough |
Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 315, no 7119, 22 November 1997 |
Pages | pp 1365-1366 |
Keywords | Depression ; Anxiety ; Confusion ; Terminal care ; Drugs. |
Annotation | Emotional disorders in patients with incurable disease should never be dismissed as inevitable or untreatable. This article outlines the causes, symptoms, prevention and management of depression, anxiety and delirium. For more severe cases, drug treatment is indicated in addition to, but not instead of, the general measures described. (RH). |
Accession Number | CPA-980106234 A |
Classmark | ENR: ENP: EDC: LV: LLD * |
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