Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8726242 Gastroenterology 2018 44 Pages PDF
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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