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The impact of delirium in the intensive care unit on hospital length of stay
Intensive Care Medicine · 2001 · Vol. 27(12) · pp. 1892–1900
E. Wesley Ely✉(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Shiva Gautam(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Richard Margolin(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Joseph Francis(St Vincent Hospital)Lisa May(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Theodore Speroff(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Brenda Truman(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Robert S. Dittus(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Gordon R. Bernard(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Sharon K. Inouye(Yale University)
Intensive Care Unit Cognitive DisordersAnesthesia and Sedative AgentsHealthcare Decision-Making and RestraintsDeliriumMedicineIntensive care unitMechanical ventilationEmergency medicineProspective cohort studyPopulationIntensive careCohort studyCohort
MeSH terms
DeliriumFemaleHumansIntensive Care UnitsLength of StayMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRisk FactorsSurvival RateMultivariate AnalysisLinear ModelsTreatment Outcome
Funding
- Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
- NIH Clinical Center
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