Systemic corticosteroids and transition to delirium in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2015, Pages e585-e588

  Wolters, Annemiek E ^a,d   Veldhuijzen, Dieuwke S ^a,b   Zaal, Irene J ^a   Peelen, Linda M ^a   Van Dijk, Diederik ^a   Devlin, John W ^c   Slooter, Arjen J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Intensive Care Medicine ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

corticosteroids; delirium; intensive care unit; risk factor

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WAKEFULNESS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOSE RESPONSE; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84947489832     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001302     Document Type: Article

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