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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine and Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, TN 37232-8300, Nashville, USA

    Timothy D. Girard & E. Wesley Ely

  2. Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, TN 37232-2158, Nashville, USA

    Ayumi K. Shintani

  3. Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, TN 37212-2637, Nashville, USA

    E. Wesley Ely

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Girard, T.D., Shintani, A.K. & Ely, E.W. Comment on “Incidence, risk factors and consequences of ICU delirium” by Ouimet et al. . Intensive Care Med 33, 1479–1480 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0698-8

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