| Database | Search terms | Hits | For review |
| PubMed | #1 “Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Intensive Care”[Mesh] AND “Rehabilitation”[Mesh] OR “Aftercare”[Mesh] | 7017 | |
| PubMed | #2 “Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Intensive Care”[Mesh] AND “Rehabilitation”[Mesh] AND “Aftercare”[Mesh] | 9 | 2 |
| PubMed | #3 “Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Intensive Care”[Mesh] AND “Aftercare”[Mesh] (Limits: last 10 years, clinical trials only; Filters: adults) | 115 | 3 |
| PubMed | #4 post intensive care syndrome[Title/Abstract]) OR PICS[Title/Abstract] (Limits: adults 19+ published last 10 years) | 53 | 1 |
| PubMed | #5 intensive care[Title/Abstract] OR ICU[Title/Abstract] AND survivor*[Title/Abstract] (Limits: adult/last 10 years/clinical trial) | 227 | 13 |
| PubMed | #6 intensive care[Title/Abstract] OR ICU[Title/Abstract] AND surviv*[Title/Abstract] AND recovery[Title/Abstract] (Limits: adults 19+, last 10 years, clinical trials) | 51 | 6 |
| PubMed | #7 “Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Intensive Care”[Mesh] AND “Rehabilitation”[Mesh] AND after care | 10 | 0 |
| PubMed | #8 “Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Intensive Care”[Mesh] AND “Rehabilitation”[Mesh] (Limits last 10 years, adults 19+) | 103 | 16 |
| PEDro | #1 Critical care | 129 | 3 |
| CINAHL | #1 AB Critical Care AND AB rehabilitation | 137 | 16 |
| CINAHL | #2 AB Critical Care AND physical therapy OR physiotherapy AND recovery (Limits: last 10 years, all adult) | 116 | 0 |
| CINAHL | #3 post intensive care syndrome [Title/Abstract] | 12 | 6 |
| Medline | #1 Critical Care AND post intensive care syndrome | 8 | 8 |
| Medline | #2 Post intensive care syndrome | 14 | 7 |
| Science Direct | #1 Critical Care (title/abstract/key words) Rehabilitation (title/abstract/key words) #2 pub-date > 2003 and TITLE (post intensive care syndrome) or TITLE-ABSTR-KEY (post intensive care syndrome) #3 pub-date > 2003 and TITLE (post intensive care syndrome) or TITLE-ABSTR-KEY (post intensive care syndrome) AND LIMIT-TO(topics, “icu”) |
203 293 12 |
9 |
| ProQuest Social Sciences | #1 SU.EXACT (“Intensive care”) AND SU.EXACT(“Rehabilitation”) OR SU.EXACT(“After care”) 2004–2015 #2 Limits: peer reviewed #3 Limits: rehabilitation |
232 187 20 |
1 |
| PubMed (9 April 2015) | #1 (“Critical Care”[Mesh]) OR “Critical Illness”[Mesh] AND “Physical Therapy Modalities”[Mesh] OR “Exercise”[Mesh] OR “Exercise Therapy”[Mesh] OR “Physical Therapy Specialty”[Mesh]) #2 (“Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Critical Illness”[Mesh] AND “Physical Therapy Modalities”[Mesh] OR “Exercise”[Mesh] OR “Exercise Therapy”[Mesh] OR “Physical Therapy Specialty”[Mesh] AND Humans[Mesh] AND adult[MeSH] AND recovery[Title/Abstract] OR post intensive care[Title/Abstract]) #3 (“Intensive Care”[Mesh] AND “Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Critical Illness”[Mesh] AND “Rehabilitation”[Mesh] OR “Aftercare”[Mesh] AND “Physical Therapy Modalities”[Mesh]) limits last 10 years, adults #4 (“Intensive Care”[Mesh] AND “Critical Care”[Mesh] OR “Critical Illness”[Mesh] AND “Physical Therapy Modalities”[Mesh]) limits: last 10 years, adults |
74,431 5413 33 85 |
3 (duplicates) 7 (6 duplicates) |
| PubMed (diagnostics) | #1 (“Diagnosis”[Mesh] AND “Intensive Care”[Mesh] OR “Critical Illness”[Mesh] AND rehabilitation[Title/Abstract] OR physical therapy modalities[MeSH Terms] AND recovery[Title/Abstract]) #2 (“Exercise Tolerance”[Mesh] OR “Exercise Therapy”[Mesh] OR “Exercise”[Mesh] AND “Survivors”[Mesh] AND “Critical Illness”[Mesh]) #3 (“Exercise Tolerance”[Mesh] OR “Exercise Therapy”[Mesh] OR “Exercise”[Mesh] AND “Survivors”[Mesh] OR “Critical Illness”[Mesh]) #4 (“Muscle Strength”[Mesh] AND “Survivors”[Mesh] AND “Critical Illness”[Mesh]) #5 (“Exercise Test”[Mesh] AND “Critical Illness”[Mesh]) #6 (“Outcome Assessment (Health Care)”[Mesh] AND “Critical Illness”[Mesh] AND survivor*[Title/Abstract]) |
4466 4 5271 1 15 104 |
1 1 1 36 |
Searches were done on 13 March 2015, 19 March 2015, 26 March 2015, and 9 April 2015; alerts were entered into the appropriate database with similar search terms