Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 242-249 , October 2009

Limitations and practicalities of CAM-ICU implementation, a delirium scoring system, in a Dutch intensive care unit

  • Bea Riekerk

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Intensive Care Medicine, Gelre Hospitals, location Lucas, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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  • Evert Jan Pen

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Intensive Care Medicine, Gelre Hospitals, location Lucas, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • José G.M. Hofhuis

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Intensive Care Medicine, Gelre Hospitals, location Lucas, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Johannes H. Rommes

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Intensive Care Medicine, Gelre Hospitals, location Lucas, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Marcus J. Schultz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • HERMES Critical Care Group, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Peter E. Spronk

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Intensive Care Medicine, Gelre Hospitals, location Lucas, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
    • Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • HERMES Critical Care Group, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of ICU, Gelre Hospitals, Lukas site, Albert Schweitzerlaan 31, 7334 DZ Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 55 5818450.

,Accepted 5 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.04.001

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 242-249 , October 2009

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