The intensive care delirium screening checklist has many potential benefits over the nursing delirium screening scale

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1610-1611

  Skrobik, Yoanna ^a   Devlin, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHECKLIST; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFUSION ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR THE ICU; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE DELIRIUM SCREENING CHECKLIST; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NURSING DELIRIUM SCREENING SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING;

EID: 77954063987     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181da4f01     Document Type: Letter

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