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The international guidelines recommend daily screening for delirium. The Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) and Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) are the most commonly used methods for assessing delirium. This study aimed to identify barriers and gaps in knowledge and practice. This was a hospital-based Cross-Sectional study. Stratified random sampling was used in this study. 72 ICU doctors were randomly selected. Statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS version 23. Descriptive data were presented, and the chi-squared test was used to determine the associations among variables. Statistical significance was set at\n                    <ns3:italic>p<\/ns3:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.05. More than 70% of the doctors were \u2264 30 years of age and female. A total of 69.4% of the participants had &lt; 1year of experience. In total, 94.4% of the participants worked in medical ICUs. Less than 20% of the doctors used delirium assessment tools, with a statistically significant difference based on experience (\n                    <ns3:italic>p<\/ns3:italic>\n                    =0.012). Delirium was not regularly assessed in 13.9% of the patients. Non-pharmacological management was applied by 76.4% of doctors, and communication with patients was the most frequent (75%). Haloperidol was the most commonly used drug (83.3%). A total of 40.3% of doctors did not stop delirium medication on ICU discharge. A regular delirium assessment was performed. However, the use of validated assessment tools is uncommon. Nonpharmacological management of delirium is important and is mostly performed. Our doctors prescribed antipsychotics for the treatment of both forms of delirium, and almost half of them did not stop the medications on ICU discharge. 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We revised the references and corrected the reference 18.&nbsp;Thank you again.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/13-456\/v4#referee-comment-12817","order":1,"name":"referee-comment-12817","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.174773.r354246, Helmut Frohnhofen, University Hospital D\u00fcsseldorf, D\u00fcsseldorf, 24 Jan 2025, version 3, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/13-456\/v3#referee-response-354246","order":2,"name":"referee-response-354246","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.174773.r361960, Hiroyoshi Takeuchi, Keio University, Tokyo, 06 Feb 2025, version 3, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/13-456\/v3#referee-response-361960","order":3,"name":"referee-response-361960","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"<b>Ghada Abd El-Raheem<\/b>; \n<i>Posted: 12 Feb 2025<\/i>; Dear Prof.&nbsp;Hiroyoshi Takeuchi,  Thank you for devoting your time for reviewing our paper.  All your amendments were fulfilled as follows: 1. Age and years of experience were expressed as mean&nbsp;and SD. 2. Specified sedatives as benzodiazepines. 3. Corrected the spelling of Risperidone in the text and figure.  Thank you again  Best regards,&nbsp; Corresponding Author","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/13-456\/v4#referee-comment-13338","order":4,"name":"referee-comment-13338","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work","order":5,"name":"grant-information","label":"Grant Information"},{"value":"This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.","order":0,"name":"copyright-info","label":"Copyright"}]}}