Don't ask, don't tell: Delirium in the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1129-1130

  Caplan, Jason P ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Confusion Assessment method for the intensive care unit; Delirium; Delirium screening; Intensive care delirium Screening checklist; Intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AGITATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELIRIUM; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FRACTURE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; VENTILATED PATIENT; WELLBEING; NOTE;

DELIRIUM; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 62849103185     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31819bb88a     Document Type: Editorial

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