Why the study?
Does a digitised online rehabilitation programme improve time until return to normal activities in patients after major surgery?
Does a digitised online rehabilitation programme improve time until return to normal activities in patients after major surgery?
Digital rehabilitation programs may accelerate recovery after major surgery, though objective compliance tracking remains a limitation.
Chantal M den Bakker and colleagues must be congratulated for their Article on their digitised rehabilitation trial.1 They showed that a digitised online rehabilitation programme with trackers, a digital consultation platform, and patient-reported outcomes results in a significantly faster time until return to normal activities after major surgery. One aspect that was not shown was the exercising data of individual participants, and compliance was defined as “at least generated a convalescence plan on the website”.
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Schnitzbauer et al. (2023) conducted a letter in Major surgery. Digitised online rehabilitation programme was evaluated on Time until return to normal activities.
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