The objective of this study is to determine the incidence of delirium in adults patients who are admitted at the critical care unit of a Dutch University Hospital with the mapping of relevant delirium risk factors The primary aim is to validate the investigators' developed delirium prediction model for critical care patients. A secondary aim is to find differences between delirious patients and non-delirious patients on different aspects of diagnostics, treatment and care, outcome, length of stay, and inflammation. According to Dutch law, the need to obtain informed consent was waived by the Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CMO) of Nijmegen for this observational study (2007/283).
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
650
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Critical Care
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
delirium
Time frame: during admission at the critical care
markers of inflammation
Time frame: within 24 hours of delirium diagnosis
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