… Using a staggered pre-post design, we implemented a quality improvement intervention
in two SICUs (general surgery or trauma and cardiovascular) in an academic medical center. …

… , this single-site project involved a multifaceted intervention for critically ill patients, with
pre–post evaluation of its effect on perceived sleep quality and delirium/cognitive outcomes in …

… interventions improve sleep and prevent delirium in ICU patients. We recommend that ICU
nurses use nonpharmacological interventions that … interventions related to sleep and delirium. …

… Critically ill patients commonly experience poor sleep quality in the intensive care unit (ICU) …
delirium in the ICU, 4 which contributes to many adverse short-term and long-term outcomes…

… Although additional research involving sleep measurement in critically ill … of sleep
improvement interventions to reduce delirium should use validated, consistent, and objective sleep …

… interventions in the intensive care unit was effective in reducing sleep deprivation and delirium,
and we … However, this study enrolled patients who were not severely ill 42. Prophylactic …

… sleep interventions on the incidence and duration of delirium, ICU length of stay, and ICU
mortality in critically ill … showed that sleep interventions helped prevent the development of ICU …

… interventions to improve sleep in critically ill patients. Clustered care has shown promise for
improving patient outcomes, including reducing delirium … of this quality improvement initiative…

… Through a structured quality improvement process, use of … without delirium significantly
increased, even in severely ill, … and efforts to improve sleep in the ICU were introduced during …

… whether improving sleep in the critically ill patients reduced the incidence and duration of
delirium. … reported a prospective quality improvement study in which data were collected for …