The cost of ICU delirium and coma in the intensive care unit patient

Medical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 890-897

  Vasilevskis, Eduard E ^a,b   Chandrasekhar, Rameela ^a   Holtze, Colin H ^c   Graves, John ^d   Speroff, Theodore ^a,b   Girard, Timothy D ^d   Patel, Mayur B ^d,e   Hughes, Christopher G ^f   Cao, Aize ^g   Pandharipande, Pratik P ^a,f   Ely, E Wesley ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

Author keywords

cost analysis; critical care; delirium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMA; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; COMPLICATION; COST; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; COMA; COMORBIDITY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85052919602     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000975     Document Type: Article

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