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Delirium and quality of life in critically ill patients: a prospective cohort study.

Lúcia Fabiane da Silva LuzMoreno Calcagnotto Dos SantosTiago Almeida RamosClarissa Balbão de AlmeidaMárcia Cristina RoverClaudia Pellizzer Dal'PizzolCristiane Letícia da Silva PohrenAline Vanessa da Silva MartinsMárcio Manozzo Boniatti
Published in: Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva (2021)
Our findings suggest that patients with delirium in the intensive care unit do not have worse quality of life 1 month after hospital discharge, despite presenting greater cognitive impairment and functional disability at the time of hospital discharge.
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