Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’

Denehy and colleagues conducted a novel randomized controlled trial evaluating a rehabilitation intervention starting in the ICU and continuing through the outpatient setting, with 1 year longitudinal follow-up. While the intervention did not demonstrate improved patient outcomes, this study illustr...

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Main Authors:	Parker, Ann, Tehranchi, Kian M, Needham, Dale M
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	BioMed Central 2013
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056109/

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spelling	pubmed-40561092014-06-14 Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’ Parker, Ann Tehranchi, Kian M Needham, Dale M Commentary Denehy and colleagues conducted a novel randomized controlled trial evaluating a rehabilitation intervention starting in the ICU and continuing through the outpatient setting, with 1 year longitudinal follow-up. While the intervention did not demonstrate improved patient outcomes, this study illustrates important issues regarding ‘usual care’ control groups in clinical trials. BioMed Central 2013 2013-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4056109/ /pubmed/24103735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc12884 Text en Copyright © 2013 BioMed Central Ltd.
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author	Parker, Ann Tehranchi, Kian M Needham, Dale M
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title	Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’
title_short	Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’
title_full	Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’
title_fullStr	Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’
title_full_unstemmed	Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’
title_sort	critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’
description	Denehy and colleagues conducted a novel randomized controlled trial evaluating a rehabilitation intervention starting in the ICU and continuing through the outpatient setting, with 1 year longitudinal follow-up. While the intervention did not demonstrate improved patient outcomes, this study illustrates important issues regarding ‘usual care’ control groups in clinical trials.
publisher	BioMed Central
publishDate	2013
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056109/
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Critical care rehabilitation trials: the importance of ‘usual care’

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