Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Dec 2015
Systemic Corticosteroids and Transition to Delirium in Critically Ill Patients.
Corticosteroids are frequently used in critically ill patients. We investigated whether systemic corticosteroid use increases the probability of transitioning to delirium in a large population of mixed medical-surgical ICU patients. ⋯ In a large population of mixed medical-surgical ICU patients, systemic corticosteroid use was not associated with an increased probability of transitioning to delirium.