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Table 3 Selection criteria of patients

From: Reduction of self-perceived discomforts in critically ill patients in French intensive care units: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial

Inclusion criteria

- Adult patients (≥18 years of age) of either sex

- Subject discharged from one of the included ICUs during one of the 1-month periods P1, P3, or P5) (Fig. 1)

- Subject with ICU stay of 3 calendar days or more

- Subject alive on ICU discharge day

- Subject consenting to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

- Minors

- Subject under trusteeship

- Subject deceased during the ICU stay

- Subject with ICU stay of 2 calendar days or less

- Subject transferred to another ICU while mechanically ventilated

- Subject with emergency discharge

- Subject with diminished cognitive capacity based on the investigator’s opinion

- Subject not consenting to participate in the study

- Subject misunderstanding the written and spoken French language