Delirium assessment in the critically ill

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 929-940

  Devlin, John W ^a,b   Fong, Jeffrey J ^a,b   Fraser, Gilles L ^c   Riker, Richard R ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Critical illness; Delirium; Intensive care unit; Nursing; Score

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIRIUM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDLINE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; DELIRIUM; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249660470     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0603-5     Document Type: Review

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