All That Work and No Gain: What Should We Do to Restore Physical Function in Our Survivors?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Critical Care Cycling Study (CYCLIST) trial protocol: a randomised controlled trial of usual care plus additional in-bed cycling sessions versus usual care in the critically ill.BMJ open · 2017
   Trial
2. Early Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation and In-Bed Leg Cycling Preserve Quadriceps Femoris Muscle Thickness in Critically Ill Patients.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapy · 2025
   Article
3. Early Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Preserves Muscle Size and Quality and Maintains Systemic Levels of Signaling Mediators of Muscle Growth and Inflammation in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Critical care research and practice · 2023
   Article
4. Low Levels of Physical Activity During Critical Illness and Weaning: The Evidence-Reality Gap.Journal of intensive care medicine · 2019
   Observational
5. The Association of Frailty With Post-ICU Disability, Nursing Home Admission, and Mortality: A Longitudinal Study.Chest · 2018
   Article
6. Early Mobilization of Patients in Intensive Care: Organization, Communication and Safety Factors that Influence Translation into Clinical Practice.Critical care (London, England) · 2018
   Review
7. Improving outcomes after critical illness: harder than we thought!Intensive care medicine · 2016
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  A Randomized Trial of an Intensive Physical Therapy Program for Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure.2016

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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