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Clinical phenotypes of delirium during critical illness and severity of subsequent long-term cognitive impairment: a prospective cohort study.
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine - 1 Mar 2018
Girard Timothy D, Thompson Jennifer L, Pandharipande Pratik P, Brummel Nathan E, Jackson James C, Patel Mayur B, Hughes Christopher G, Chandrasekhar Rameela, Pun Brenda T, Boehm Leanne M, Elstad Mark R, Goodman Richard B, Bernard Gordon R, Dittus Robert S, Ely E W
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BACKGROUND: Delirium during critical illness results from numerous insults, which might be interconnected and yet individually contribute to long-term cognitive impairment. We sought to describe the prevalence and duration of clinical phenotypes of delirium (ie, phenotypes defined by clinical risk factors) and to understand associations between these clinical phenotypes and severity of subsequent long-term...
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