Randomized ICU trials do not demonstrate an association between interventions that reduce delirium duration and short-term mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1442-1454

  Al Qadheeb, Nada S ^a   Balk, Ethan M ^b   Fraser, Gilles L ^c,d   Skrobik, Yoanna ^e   Riker, Richard R ^c,d   Kress, John P ^f   Whitehead, Shawn ^a   Devlin, John W ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipsychotic; critical illness; delirium; dexmedetomidine; meta analysis; mortality; randomized controlled study; systematic review

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HALOPERIDOL; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; RIVASTIGMINE; SEDATIVE AGENT; ZIPRASIDONE;

AROUSAL; BRAIN PERFUSION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; META ANALYSIS; MOBILIZATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

DELIRIUM; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84901483156     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000224     Document Type: Review

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