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SUBMITTER: Orman ES
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4492810 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orman Eric S ES Perkins Anthony A Ghabril Marwan M Khan Babar A BA Chalasani Naga N Boustani Malaz A MA
Metabolic brain disease 20150507 4
In the intensive care unit (ICU), delirium is routinely measured with the widely-used, validated Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU (CAM-ICU), but CAM-ICU has not been studied in patients with cirrhosis. We studied a group of patients with cirrhosis to determine the relationship between delirium measured by CAM-ICU and clinical outcomes. Consecutive patients with cirrhosis admitted to the ICU from 2009 to 2012 were included in a retrospective cohort study. Patients were screened twice daily ...[more]