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Haloperidol and delirium: what is next?

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark

    Nina C. Andersen-Ranberg

  2. Collaboration for Research in Intensive Care (CRIC), Copenhagen, Denmark

    Nina C. Andersen-Ranberg & Anders Perner

  3. Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modelling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Centre, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Timothy D. Girard

  4. Department of Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Anders Perner

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NCAN: coordinating investigator of the AID-ICU trial, part of the trial steering committee. TDG: investigator and steering committee member for the MIND-USA Study. AP: initiator and grant holder of the AID-ICU trial, part of the trial steering committee.

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Andersen-Ranberg, N.C., Girard, T.D. & Perner, A. Haloperidol and delirium: what is next?. Intensive Care Med 49, 1535–1537 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-023-07232-3

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