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<p>The intensive care unit is that place you think of for the sickest patients, full of tubes and wires — patients who are comatose, unmoving, unaware. Yet a collaborative through Partners Healthcare in Massachusetts has created a program — now in its fifth year — that has critically ill patients getting up sooner rather than later, getting rid of those tubes and wires, and getting better sooner because of it.</p>

ICU program gets patients moving sooner

Those patients have better outcomes, creators say