Routine use of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) by bedside nurses may underdiagnose delirium

Critical Care and Resuscitation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 217-225

  Reade, Michael C ^a,b   Eastwood, Glenn M ^a   Peck, Leah ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a   Baldwin, Ian ^a  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; CONFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857100478     PISSN: 14412772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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