Cost Associated With Pediatric Delirium in the ICU.

Objective: To determine the costs associated with delirium in critically ill children. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: An urban, academic, tertiary-care PICU in New York city. Patients: Four-hundred and sixty-four consecutive PICU admissions between September 2, 2014, and December 12, 2014. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: All children were assessed for delirium daily throughout their PICU stay. Hospital costs were analyzed using cost-to-charge ratios, in 2014 dollars. Median total PICU costs were higher in patients with delirium than in patients who were never delirious ($18,832 vs $4,803; p 3 d with delirium; p

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