International consensus is needed on a core outcome set to advance the evidence of best practice in cancer prehabilitation services and research

Myers, Anna M; Barlow, Rachael C; Baldini, Gabriele; Campbell, Anna M; Carli, Franco; Carr, Esther J; Collyer, Tom; Danjoux, Gerard; Davis, June F; Denehy, Linda; Durrand, James; Gillis, Chelsia; Greenfield, Diana M; Griffiths, Stuart P; Grocott, Mike; Humphreys, Liam; Jack, Sandy; Keen, Carol; Levett, Denny Z H; Merchant, Zoe; Moore, John; Moug, Susan; Ricketts, William; Mina, Daniel Santa; Saxton, John M; Shaw, Clare E; Tew, Garry A; Thelwell, Michael; West, Malcolm A; Copeland, Robert J

Abstract

Prehabilitation aims to optimise patients’ physical and psychological status before treatment. The types of outcomes measured to assess the impact of prehabilitation interventions vary across clinical research and service evaluation, limiting the ability to compare between studies and services and to pool data. An international workshop involving academic and clinical experts in cancer prehabilitation was convened in May 2022 at Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, England. The workshop substantiated calls for a core outcome set to advance knowledge and understanding of best practice in cancer prehabilitation and to develop national and international databases to assess outcomes at a population level.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 5, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Mar 23, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Deposit Date: Mar 13, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 24, 2025
• Print ISSN: 0007-0912
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-6771
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 132
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 851-856
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2024.02.021
• Keywords: Prehabilitation, Rehabilitation, Cancer, Surgery, Core Outcome Set
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3561972