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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

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Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

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But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event.

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