ICU sedation, delirium & recovery
Hallucinations and disturbed behaviour in the critically ill: incidence, patient characteristics, associations, trajectory, and outcomes
Authors' conclusion
Hallucinations affect one in 12 ICU patients and are strongly associated with disturbed behaviour, and the use of antipsychotic medications.
Study context
- Population
- Intensive care unit (ICU) patients
- Participants
- 7,525 patients
- Exposure
- Hallucinations vs no hallucinations
- Hallucinationsn = 625
- Outcome
- Incidence of hallucinations
Methodological detailsnon-interventional, natural language processing of clinical progress notes, nested cohort
- Non-interventional
- Natural language processing of clinical progress notes
- Nested cohort
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Hallucinations
8.31%
625
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
NLP-diagnosed behavioural disturbance (NLP-Dx-BD)
Antipsychotic medication use (nested cohort with electronic medications data, n = 2904; 252 [8.7%] with hallucinations) · nested cohort
P < 0.001
Outcomes
- No difference on outcomes in patients with or without hallucination
Original publication
Hallucinations and disturbed behaviour in the critically ill: incidence, patient characteristics, associations, trajectory, and outcomes. Crit Care. Published 31 January 2025. doi:10.
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