Prehabilitation in elective abdominal cancer surgery in older patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sarah L Daniels Matthew James Lee Jayan GeorgeK KerrSusan J MougT R WilsonS R BrownLynda Wyld

Published in: BJS open (2020)

The conclusions of this review are limited by the quality of the included studies, and the heterogeneity of interventions and outcome measures reported. Exercise, nutritional and multimodal prehabilitation may reduce morbidity after abdominal surgery, but data specific to older patients are sparse.

Keyphrases

physical activity
papillary thyroid
minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
squamous cell
high intensity
patients undergoing
electronic health record
single cell
pain management
big data
case control
surgical site infection
machine learning
neural network
artificial intelligence