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Effect of a 24-h extended visiting policy on delirium in critically ill patients

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to all intensivists and intensive care nurses, to the system analysts Lucimeri Albino Pereira Nunes and Maurício Gonçalves for their help in the data extraction from the EHR, and to the statistician Natalia Giordani for her help in statistical analysis.

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  1. Centro Hospitalar Unimed de Joinville, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Glauco Adrieno Westphal, Mayara Schirmer Moerschberger, Dailany D’Aroz Vollmann, Amanda Caroline Inácio, Míriam C. Machado, Geonice Sperotto & Álvaro Koenig

  2. Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNet), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Glauco Adrieno Westphal & Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti

  3. HCor Research Institute, São Paulo, Brazil

    Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti

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GAW was the principal study coordinator, conceived the study, and contributed to the writing of all versions of the manuscript. MSM, DAV, ACI, MCM, and GS participated in the data collection. ABC and AK participated in the statistical analysis and interpretation of the data.

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The study was approved by the institutional research ethics committee (CAAE Registration No. 51661515.3.0000.5362).

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Westphal, G.A., Moerschberger, M.S., Vollmann, D.D. et al. Effect of a 24-h extended visiting policy on delirium in critically ill patients. Intensive Care Med 44, 968–970 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5153-5

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