Figure 1.

Participant enrolment and retention flow diagram. 1The inclusion criteria are as follows: age ≥18 years or older; intensive care unit length of stay >48 hours; receipt of mechanical ventilation for ≥24 hours; discharged home to self-care or carer; residence within the hospitals' local catchment areas to enable home visits; no neurological, spinal or skeletal dysfunction preventing participation in physical rehabilitation; not receiving palliative care; and no organised rehabilitation related to ongoing chronic disease.

Elliott et al. Critical Care 2006 10:R90   doi:10.1186/cc4949
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