Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Towards a common definition of surgical prehabilitation: a scoping review of randomised trials
Study context
- Population
- Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of unimodal or multimodal prehabilitation interventions (nutrition, exercise, psychological support) lasting ≥7 days in adults undergoing elective surgery
- Participants
- 76 prehabilitation RCTs
- Primary endpoint
- How surgical prehabilitation is defined across RCTs; proposal of a common definition
Methodological detailssummative content analysis, Final search February 2023: MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science, CINAHL, Cochrane
- Summative content analysis
- Final search February 2023: MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science, CINAHL, Cochrane
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Definition of surgical prehabilitation
Surgical prehabilitation explicitly defined
n=42, 55%
Further findings
Surgery type of included trials
- Abdominal
- n=26, 34%
- Orthopaedic
- n=20, 26%
- Thoracic
- n=14, 18%
- Cardiac
- n=7, 9%
- Spinal
- n=4, 5%
- Other
- n=5, 7%
Original publication
Towards a common definition of surgical prehabilitation: a scoping review of randomised trials. Br J Anaesth. Published 26 April 2024. doi:10.
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