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Introduction Pain assessment is associated with important outcomes in ICU patients but remains challenging, particularly in non-communicative patients. Use of a reliable tool is paramount to allow any implementation of sedation/analgesia protocols in a multidisciplinary team. This study compared psychometric properties (inter-rater agreement primarily; validity, responsiveness and feasibility secondarily)...
We compared 560 adults hospitalized in our Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) to 245 ventilated babies hospitalized in our Neonatal ICU (NICU). Both ICUs had comparable mortality rates - roughly 1 patient in 5 died. The average length of hospitalization for nonsurvivors versus survivors was disproportionately short for NICU babies (13d v 33d) and long for MICU adults (15d v 12d). This phenomenon resulted...
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