Intensive & critical care nursing : the official journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Oct 2019
Meta AnalysisThe impact of analgosedation on mortality and delirium in critically ill patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
To assess the impact of analgosedation on mortality and delirium in critically ill patients. ⋯ The ICU mortality was decreased by implementing analgosedation, but the hospital mortality and the delirium rates were not. Because of the absence of higher quality study designs, clinical heterogeneity and inclusion of small number of studies, the analysis results must be cautiously interpreted.