Figure 1.

Data collection points for the pilot. Following step down from ICU, patients recover on different trajectories. Some patients make a very rapid recovery. Others follow a slower trajectory to the point of discharge to the community or on to further in-patent rehabilitation. Patients making a rapid recovery would have a single PICUPs and PICUPs-Plus recorded at transition to the acute wards and then a Rehabilitation Prescription recorded at discharge to the community. Those on a slower recover trajectory would have a second PICUPs and PICUPs-Plus recorded at the point when they become ‘Rehabilitation Ready’ (i.e. when their medical condition has stabilised and rehabilitation became the primary focus for intervention) and then a Rehabilitation Prescription recorded at discharge to the community.