Systemic Corticosteroids And Transition To Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
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Systemic Corticosteroids And Transition To Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
OBJECTIVE Corticosteroids are frequently used in critically ill patients. We investigated whether systemic corticosteroid use increases the probability of transitioning to delirium in a large population of mixed medical-surgical ICU patients. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING A 32-bed medical-surgical ICU at an academic medical center. PATIENTS Critically ill adults (n = 1,112), ad...
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عنوان ژورنال: Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2197-425X
DOI: 10.1186/2197-425x-3-s1-a30