Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

Waszynski, Christine M. RN, C, MS, APRN
Buckwalter, Editor Kathleen C. PhD, RN, FAAN

University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa (Buckwalter)

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This article was reprinted with permission from Try This: Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults from the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Vol. 2, No. 13, November 2001. Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN is Director of the Institute and Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN is Co-Director. Series Editor: Sheila Molony, MS, RN, C. Managing Editor: Jessica Scholder, MPH.

Journal of Gerontological Nursing 27(4):p 4-5, April 2002.

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