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cord-287132-ellr5l4z	Reif, Sarah Jordan	A pilot volunteer reader programme decreases delirium days in critically ill, adult ICU patients	2020-07-20		.txt	text/plain	1570	101	52	title: A pilot volunteer reader programme decreases delirium days in critically ill, adult ICU patients Delirium, a form of acute brain dysfunction presenting as altered mental status, and impairment of memory, emotion, thinking, perception and behaviour 1 develops over hours to days 2 and is seen in 20%-80% 1 3 of adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients, depending on the diagnostic method and severity of illness. We hypothesised that a programme of interaction-reading to critically ill ICU patients on a daily basis-might decrease delirium days. The ICU Reader Programme was born as a service project, using volunteers, in which we hoped to identify a decrease in delirium days-the 'signal'-that would prove our hypothesis. Delirium was diagnosed using the 2014 updated version of the Confusion Assessment Method-ICU (CAM-ICU) scoring system, [11] [12] [13] shown to tightly correlate with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5 delirium diagnosis. An ICU Reader Programme appears to decrease risk for, and duration of, delirium in adult ICU patients.	./cache/cord-287132-ellr5l4z.txt	./txt/cord-287132-ellr5l4z.txt