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  1. Department of Critical Care, A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, Rua Professor Antonio Prudente, 211, 6th Floor, Intensive Care Unit, São Paulo, SP, CEP 01509-0100, Brazil

    Antonio Paulo Nassar

  2. Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the Tennessee Valley Veteran’s Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), Nashville, TN, USA

    Eugene Wesley Ely

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Kirsten M. Fiest

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APNJ has received personal financial support from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific Development (CNPq). EWE has ongoing NIH and VA funding and has received honoraria from Pfizer for CME activities. He has no stocks or consultancies with any pharma or other industry groups. KMF has no competing interests.

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Nassar, A.P., Ely, E.W. & Fiest, K.M. Long-term outcomes of intensive care unit delirium. Intensive Care Med 49, 677–680 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-023-07029-4

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