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Intensive care unit delirium is an independent predictor of longer hospital stay: a prospective analysis of 261 non-ventilated patients

Jason WW Thomason1, Ayumi Shintani2, Josh F Peterson3, Brenda T Pun4, James C Jackson5 and E Wesley Ely6*

Author Affiliations

1 Attending Physician, Division of Allergy/Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

2 Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Medicine, Departments of Internal Medicine, Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

3 Assistant Professor of Medicine and Bioinformatics, Departments of Internal Medicine, Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

4 Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, Division of Allergy/Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA and Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

5 Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Division of Allergy/Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA and Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

6 Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy/Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Center of Health Services Research, Associate Director of Research, VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (CRECC), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

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Critical Care 2005, 9:R375-R381 doi:10.1186/cc3729


See related commentary http://ccforum.com/content/9/4/R375

Published: 1 June 2005

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