Exercise rehabilitation for patients with critical illness: a randomized controlled trial with 12 months of follow-up

Table 3 Six-Minute Walk Test, Timed Up and Go Test, Physical Function in ICU Test, Assessment of Quality of Life Instrument utility and Short Form 36 Health Survey, version 2 raw scores by study group ^a

^a6MWT, Six-Minute Walk Test (meters), higher scores equal improved performance, normative value = 662 m; TUG, Timed Up and Go Test (seconds), lower scores equal improved performance, normative value = 9.19 s; PFIT, Physical Function in ICU Test, scored on the basis of Rasch analysis, interval score range 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating improved performance; AQoL, Assessment of Quality of Life Measure; consistent with utility theory, for those who died, the AQoL utility score was set at 0.00 and higher scores indicate higher utility; SF-36v2, Short Form 36 Health Survey, version 2, in which higher scores indicate improved performance; PF, SF-36v2 physical function domain; PCS, SF-36v2 physical component score, MCS, SF-36v2 mental component score. SF-36v2 results are presented as T-scores where the population mean is 50 and the SD is 10. With the SF-36v2, only survivors at each time point contribute data. Baseline AQoL and SF-36 were administered to participants as close as possible to enrollment in the trial as a “then test” whereby participants retrospectively estimated their premorbid health-related quality of life.

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