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Delirium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Brice Pitt
Brice Pitt*
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St Charles Hospital, London
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Professor B Pitt, Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, St Charles Hospital, Exmoor Street, London W10 6DZ, UK.
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Psychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , May 1991, pp. 147 - 157
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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