Prehabilitation is a multimodal approach to optimize patients before surgery, though higher-quality evidence is still awaited.
May support multimodal prehabilitation to optimize surgical patients; leaves open efficacy confirmation pending higher-quality trials.
Optimizing a patients' condition before surgery to improve the postoperative outcome can be achieved by using prehabilitation; preoperative interventions focusing on modifiable risk factors to improve the physical, nutritional, and mental status of the patient. A multimodal, multidisciplinary approach induces a synergistic effect between the various interventions and affects the outcome postoperatively. While awaiting higher-quality evidence, the worldwide implementation of prehabilitation programs has started, resulting in a true revolution in perioperative care.
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