Hospital Admission with Dementia: A Call for Change?

Authors

  • Filipa Bianchi-de-Aguiar Unidade funcional 4, Medicina Interna, Hospital de S. Francisco Xavier, Lisboa, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3723-7936
  • Cristina Carvalho Gouveia Unidade funcional 4, Medicina Interna, Hospital de S. Francisco Xavier, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Carla Brito Unidade funcional 4, Medicina Interna, Hospital de S. Francisco Xavier, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Paulo Reis-Pina Casa de Saúde da Idanha, Sintra, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4665-585X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24950/rspmi.2022.01.306

Keywords:

Dementia, Hospitalization

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Published

2022-03-22

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Bianchi-de-Aguiar F, Carvalho Gouveia C, Brito C, Reis-Pina P. Hospital Admission with Dementia: A Call for Change?. RPMI [Internet]. 2022 Mar. 22 [cited 2024 Dec. 18];29(1):76-7. Available from: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/528

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