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The impact of delirium on the prediction of in-hospital mortality in intensive care patients

INTRODUCTION: Predictive models, such as acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE-II), are widely used in intensive care units (ICUs) to estimate mortality. Although the presence of delirium is associated with a higher mortality in ICU patients, delirium is not part of the APACHE-II...

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Autores principales: van den Boogaard, Mark, Peters, Sanne AE, van der Hoeven, Johannes G, Dagnelie, Pieter C, Leffers, Pieter, Pickkers, Peter, Schoonhoven, Lisette
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20682037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc9214