Commencing Out-of-Bed Rehabilitation in Critical Care—What Influences Clinical Decision-Making?

Abstract

Objectives: To develop a decision tree that objectively identifies the most discriminative variables in the decision to provide out-of-bed rehabilitation, measure the effect of this decision and to identify the factors that intensive care unit (ICU) practitioners think most influential in that clinical decision. Design: A prospective 3-part study: (1) consensus identification of influential factors in mobilization via survey; (2) development of an early rehabilitation decision tree; (3) measurement of practitioner mobilization decision-making. Treating practitioners of patients expected to stay >96 hours were asked if they would provide out-of-bed rehabilitation and rank factors that influen..