Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8726242 | Gastroenterology | 2018 | 44 Pages |
Abstract
In a systematic review and meta-analysis, we found that nutritional prehabilitation alone or combined with an exercise program significantly decreased length of hospital stay by 2 days in patients undergoing colorectal surgery. There is some evidence that multimodal prehabilitation accelerated the return to presurgical functional capacity.
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Authors
Chelsia Gillis, Katherine Buhler, Lauren Bresee, Francesco Carli, Leah Gramlich, Nicole Culos-Reed, Tolulope T. Sajobi, Tanis R. Fenton,