ReviewSeminars in respiratory and critical care medicine2019
Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit: Strategies for Improvement.
Review in Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Measurement properties of Arabic-validated sleep quality instruments: a COSMIN-based systematic review from the BRIDGE Project.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Sleep quality assessment in hospitalized postoperative surgical patients: a COSMIN-based systematic review.Frontiers in sleep · 2025Pooled it
- Flexible family visitation and postoperative delirium in an orthopedic intensive care unit: A randomized trial examining surgical-type heterogeneity and cost outcomes.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Trial
- Sleep Quality Assessment in Intensive Care Units: Comparing Actigraphy and the Richards Campbell Sleep Questionnaire-A Pilot Study in the Moroccan Context.Clocks & sleep · 2025Article
- Sleep Quality and Disruptive Factors in Intensive Care Units: A Comparison Between Mechanically Ventilated and Spontaneously Breathing Patients.Nursing in critical care · 2025Observational
- Sleep in the ICU - A complex challenge requiring multifactorial solutions.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- Sleep fragmentation in critically ill children: a review of contributing factors in the pediatric intensive care unit and neurodevelopmental outcomes.Frontiers in sleep · 2025Review
- A multicentre point prevalence study of nocturnal hours awake and enteral pharmacological sleep aids in patients admitted to Australian and New Zealand intensive care units.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2024Article
- Delirium and sleep quality in the intensive care unit: the role of melatonin.Critical care science · 2024Article
- Noise reduction in the ICU: a best practice implementation project.JBI evidence implementation · 2022Article
- Observational
- The Fundamental Need for Sleep in Neurocritical Care Units: Time for a Paradigm Shift.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Sleep and Delirium in Older Adults.Current sleep medicine reports · 2020Review
- Sleep Quality and Its Associated Factors among Adult Patients Admitted in the Intensive Care Units of Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.SAGE open nursingArticle
- Feasibility and Acceptability of Using Wireless Limited Polysomnography to Capture Sleep Before, During, and After Hospitalization for Patients With Planned Cardiothoracic Surgery.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingArticle
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU) is considered to be subjectively poor, highly fragmented, and sometimes referred to as "atypical." Although sleep is felt to be crucial for patient recovery, little is known about the association of sleep with physiologic function among critically ill patients, or those with clinically important outcomes in the ICU. Research involving ICU-based sleep disturbance is challenging due to the lack of objective, practical, reliable, and scalable methods to measure sleep and the multifactorial etiologies of its disruption. Despite these challenges, research into sleep-promoting techniques is growing and has demonstrated a variety of causes leading to ICU-related sleep loss, thereby motivating multifaceted intervention efforts. Through a focused review of (1) sleep measurement in the ICU; (2) outcomes related to poor sleep in the ICU; and (3) ICU-based sleep promotion efforts including environmental, nonpharmacological, and pharmacological interventions, this paper examines research regarding sleep in the ICU and highlights the need for future investigation into this complex and dynamic field.
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