Intensive Care Unit delirium: A wide gap between actual prevalence and psychiatric referral

• Main Authors: Sandeep Grover (Author), Siddharth Sarkar (Author), Lakshmi Narayana Yaddanapudi (Author), Abhishek Ghosh (Author), Amit Desouza (Author), Debasish Basu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and Aims: The study aimed to assess the rates of delirium in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) prospectively assessed with a delirium screening instrument and confirmed through psychiatrist evaluation. In addition, the referral rate to psychiatric consultation liaison services from the same IC...