Prevalence and associated factors for delirium in critically ill patients at a Japanese intensive care unit

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 607-611

  Tsuruta, Ryosuke ^a   Nakahara, Takashi ^a   Miyauchi, Takashi ^a   Kutsuna, Satoshi ^a   Ogino, Yasuaki ^a   Yamamoto, Takahiro ^a   Kaneko, Tadashi ^a   Kawamura, Yoshikatsu ^a   Kasaoka, Shunji ^b   Maekawa, Tsuyoshi ^a,b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

C Reactive protein (CRP); Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM ICU); Delirium; Inflammation; Ventilator

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78649517990     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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