Patient characteristics and preferences for a surgical prehabilitation program design

Usha Gurunathan, Oystein Tronstad & Christopher Stonell. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol (2022). DOI 10.1007/s00432-022-04420-4

Abstract: Surgical prehabilitation aims to reduce a decline in the functional capacity thereby optimising health and fitness before surgery. One of the major barriers in successfully implementing a prehabilitation program in hospitals has been poor patient adherence. In our pilot survey on surgical patients, we sought to explore patient preferences regarding the program design, the barriers and enablers to patient participation in a multimodal prehabilitation program.