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DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE
 
The questionnaire was divided into nine sections. Sections 1 and 2 briefly explained the study and asked for informed consent approval. Section 3 inquired about work setting: ICU, ward, or both, with the participant being directed to the appropriate sections. Sections 4 and 5 addressed reasons for indications of physiotherapy and physiotherapy practice in the ICU and in the ward, respectively. Sections 6 and 7 addressed functional outcome measures in the ICU and in the ward, respectively. Section 8 inquired about the physiotherapist's professional information, and section 9 addressed the characteristics of the primary hospital of employment. Participants completed only the sections related to their current work place. The results related to sections 6 and 7 are not presented here.
 
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SURVEY AND DATA ANALYSIS
 
The REDCap platform(1) protects against unauthorized access and guarantees anonymity and confidentiality. It also automatically defines the participants' ID as a unique identifier but does not provide the number of people that visited the survey link.
 
Respondents had to complete all of the pertinent questions in order to submit the survey, which avoided non-response error and missing data.
 
Contact details of the participants were not obtained. Duplicate entries were identified and excluded on the REDCap platform. The response rate was calculated, after removing the duplicates, as the ratio of the number of physiotherapists who completed the questionnaire to the number of physiotherapists who agreed to participate and initiated completing the questionnaire.
 
REFERENCES
 
1.            Harris PA, Taylor R, Thielke R, Payne J, Gonzalez N, Conde JG. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)--a metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support. J Biomed Inform. 2009;42(2):377-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2008.08.010