Background The certainty that prehabilitation improves postoperative outcomes is not clear.
The objective of this umbrella review (ie systematic review of systematic reviews) was to …

Poorly controlled postoperative pain is associated with increased morbidity, negatively
affects quality of life and functional recovery, and is a risk factor for persistent pain and …

Background Guidelines to promote the early recovery of patients undergoing major surgery
recommend a restrictive intravenous-fluid strategy for abdominal surgery. However, the …

Background Functional capacity is an important component of risk assessment for major
surgery. Doctors' clinical subjective assessment of patients' functional capacity has uncertain …

Background Several quality of recovery (QoR) health status scales have been developed to
quantify the patient's experience after anesthesia and surgery, but to date, it is unclear what …

Objective: To compare the accuracy of the modified Fried Index (mFI) and the Clinical Frailty
Scale (CFS) to predict death or patient-reported new disability 90 days after major elective …

Background There are very few patient-centred global outcome measures of recovery in the
days or weeks after surgery. This meta-analysis evaluated the psychometric properties and …

BACKGROUND: Patients with lung cancer often experience reduced functional capacity and
quality of life after surgery. The current study investigated the impact of a short-term, home …

Background An association between increasing anaesthetic depth and decreased
postoperative survival has been shown in observational studies; however, evidence from …

Abstract Background The Duke Activity Status Index (DASI) questionnaire might help
incorporate self-reported functional capacity into preoperative risk assessment …