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Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD)

EBSCO - MEDLINE and CINAHL

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  • MEDLINE - Number of hits – March 2025 - 3664
  • CINAHL - Number of hits – March 2025 - 1472

"excited delirium" OR (behavio* N1 disturbance) OR (agitat* N2 patient*)

OVID - EMBASE and EMCARE 

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  • EMBASE - Number of hits – March 2025 - 10,133
  • EMCARE - Number of hits – March 2025 - 11,789

(excited ADJ1 delirium) OR (behavio* ADJ1 disturbance*) OR (agitat* ADJ2 patient*)

Updated 29 March 2025

  • Last Updated: Apr 4, 2025 9:33 AM
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