Prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize awarded to ‘Probable delirium is a presenting symptom of COVID-19 in frail, older adults’ | British Geriatrics Society

The prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize has been awarded to the Age and Ageing paper ‘Probable delirium is a presenting symptom of COVID-19 in frail, older adults: a cohort study of 322 hospitalised and 535 community-based older adults’. The prize is given annually to the most deserving medical research relating to the needs of older people, published over the last year in…

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