The impact of delirium on the prediction of in-hospital mortality in intensive care patients
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Critical Care
- Vol. 14 (4), R146
- https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9214
Abstract
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 model. The aim of the current study was to evaluate whether delirium, present within 24 hours after ICU admission, improves the predictive value of the APACHE-II score.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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