Multimodal prehabilitation in older adults before major abdominal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Ning Qi PangYu Xiang TanMiny SamuelKer-Kan TanGlenn Kunnath BonneyHuso YiWei Chieh Alfred KowPublished in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2022)
Amongst older patients, multimodal prehabilitation increases peri-operative functional capacity and may potentially decrease post-operative complications. Future studies should continue to focus on older patients who are frail as this is the group that prehabilitation would likely have a clinically significant impact on.