Intensive care unit psychosis-sundowning: A challenging phenomenon
Salman Assad, Usman Ghani, Touqeer Sulehria, Taimur Mansoor, Muhammad Ameer
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Assad S, Ghani U, Sulehria T, Mansoor T, Ameer M. Intensive care unit psychosis-sundowning: A challenging phenomenon. Indian J Crit Care Med 2017; 21 (2):112-113.
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