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  1. D’Or Institute for Reasearch and Education, Rua Diniz Cordeiro, 30–3º andar, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, CEP 22281-100, Brazil

    Jorge I. F. Salluh

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Clínica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

    Jorge I. F. Salluh

  3. General Intensive Care Medicine, Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Raymond Poincaré Hospital, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Garches, France

    Tarek Sharshar

  4. Human Histopathology and Animal Models, Infection and Epidemiology Department, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

    Tarek Sharshar

  5. Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Ave., MC 6026, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    John P. Kress

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Dr. Salluh is supported in part by individual research grants from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ).

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Salluh, J.I.F., Sharshar, T. & Kress, J.P. Does this patient have delirium?. Intensive Care Med 43, 693–695 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4527-9

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