Predictive Validity of the Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment Tool (CPAx) for Regaining Autonomy Three Months After ICU Discharge

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patient not affiliated with the French national health insurance system.
• •Documented pre-existing cognitive impairment likely to limit understanding of instructions and participation in functional assessments (e.g., dementia, intellectual disability, severe uncontrolled psychiatric disorder).
• •History of disabling chronic neuromuscular disease (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myopathy, progressive chronic polyneuropathy).
• •History of major pre-existing locomotor impairment preventing autonomous walking (e.g., paraplegia, uncompensated disabling arthropathy).
• •Refusal to participate in the study or withdrawal of consent at any time.
• •Person under legal guardianship, curatorship, or any other legal protection measure.
• •Simultaneous participation in another interventional study likely to interfere with the evaluation criteria of the present study.
• •Medical contraindication to performing the 6-minute walk test at 3 months (e.g., cardiovascular decompensation, acute pulmonary disease, persistent hemodynamic instability).