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Early rehabilitation for critically ill adult patients: protocol for an umbrella review.

Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026 · Protocol

Kun Sun, Yongming Tian, Yuanyuan Song, Biantong Jiang, Huan Liu, Aiping Du

PMID 42558522

This is a plan for a future review, not a completed study.

It contains no findings about whether early rehabilitation helps or harms ICU patients. Nothing here changes what you do on Monday.

What this paper is

This is a protocol for a planned umbrella review of early rehabilitation in critically ill adults. It describes the intended search strategy, inclusion criteria, quality-appraisal methods, and analysis plan, but contains no results, no findings, and no evidence about the effectiveness or safety of early rehabilitation. There is nothing to report that could inform clinical decision-making.

Declared interests

Funded by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology (Grant No. 2024YFFK0262, 'Construction and effectiveness evaluation of a precise early rehabilitation decision-making system for critically ill patients based on ultrasound visualization technology'). The funder had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or manuscript writing.

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    Kun Sun, Yongming Tian, Yuanyuan Song, et al. Early rehabilitation for critically ill adult patients: protocol for an umbrella review. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences. 2026.

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