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Training related to delirium is inadequate for intensive care unit health care professionals

Delirium-Related Training Inadequate for ICU Staff

Only 26.8 percent of health care professionals reported screening for delirium on routine basis
Most clinicians believe that sleep in the intensive care unit is poor and that poor sleep adversely affects patient outcomes

Most Clinicians Report That Sleep Quality in ICU Is Poor

Poor sleep has adverse effect on ICU recovery process and is linked to negative ICU outcomes
A significant number of former intensive care unit patients experience depression

Depression Often Seen in Patients Discharged From ICU

Risk highest among patients with psych symptoms pre-ICU/psych distress symptoms while in ICU
Hospitals with higher intensive care unit utilization for four common conditions have greater use of invasive procedures and costs of hospitalization

ICU May Up Invasive Procedures, Costs, Without Mortality Benefit

Hospital-level ICU utilization rate not linked to hospital mortality for four common conditions
Memories of delusions in the intensive care unit are composed of a mixture of fact and fiction

Memories of Delusions in ICU Include Fact, Fiction

Four themes identified in delusions: family, dynamic spaces, surviving challenges, and constant motion