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

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

²Research 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

³Assistant 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

⁴Clinical 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

⁵Research 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

⁶Associate 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