Clinical update. Editor: Takashi Hosaka, MD

• Book ID: 101296080
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 36 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1057-9249
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1611(199803/04)7:2<138::aid-pon296>3.0.co;2-p

✦ Synopsis

ILL CANCER PATIENTS-A PROSPECTIVE cated that 53.7% met the DSM-III-R criteria for a STUDY psychiatric disorder and 42% had a cognitive impairment. Delirium was found in 28% of those admitted, dementia in 10.7%, adjustment disorders in 7.5%, Minagawa, H., Uchitomi, Y., Yamawaki, S. and Ishitani, amnestic disorder and major depression in 3.2%, and a K. (1996) Cancer 78, 1131-1137. generalized anxiety disorder in 1.1%. There are few palliative care units where psychiatrists/psychologists In order to examine the psychiatric morbidity among cancer patients, 93 terminally ill cancer patients were are working in Japan, therefore the authors addressed assessed using Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) the possibility of not detecting depression/delirium and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-among terminally cancer patients.