Table 5.  Comparison of clinical outcomes between study groups.

	Total population			Matched population
	Early mobilization	Late mobilization	P	Early mobilization	Late mobilization	P
Baseline characteristics	n=85	n=92		n=37	n=37
ICU rehabilitation
Time to first rehabilitation	2 [2–4]	5 [2–7]	<0.0001	2 [2–4]	4 [2–6]	0.009
Time to first out-of-bed mobilization, days	4 [3–5]	9 [7–14]	<0.0001	4 [3–5]	7 [6–8]	<0.001
Number of total rehabilitations per person, days	2 [0–3]	4 [1–6]	<0.0001	3 [1–4]	2 [0–5]	0.791
Number of total rehabilitations per person, times	3 [0–7]	6 [1–10]	0.014	6 [1–10]	3 [0–9]	0.302
Number of daily rehabilitations per person, times/day	2 [2–3]	2 [1–2]	<0.0001	2 [2–2]	2 [1–2]	0.005
Highest IMS at ICU entry	3 [3–5]	1 [1–3]	<0.0001	5 [3–6]	1 [1–3]	<0.001
EM protocol level, sessions
Level 1	2 [1–2]	4 [2–6]	<0.0001	2 [1–3]	2 [1–5]	0.174
Level 2	1 [0–2]	2 [1–3]	<0.0001	1 [0–2]	2 [1–3]	0.069
Level 3	1 [0–1]	0 [0–1]	<0.0001	1 [0–1]	0 [0–0]	0.001
Level 4	0 [0–1]	0 [0–0]	<0.0001	0 [0–1]	0 [0–0]	0.009
Level 5	0 [0–0]	0 [0–0]	<0.0001	0 [0–1]	0 [0–0]	0.040
Ward rehabilitation
Number of total rehabilitations per person, days	7 [1–16]	16 [8–26]	<0.0001	7 [2–14]	15 [8–21]	0.024
Number of total rehabilitations per person, times	9 [1–16]	18 [9–34]	<0.0001	11 [3–16]	18 [10–30]	0.014
Number of daily rehabilitations per person, times/day	1 [1–1]	1 [1–1]	0.008	1 [1–1]	1 [1–2]	0.112

Data are presented as median [interquartile range] or number (%).

Analysis by independent-sample Mann–Whitney U-test or χ² test.