A national survey of the provision of prehabilitation for oesophagogastric cancer patients in the UK
Despite barriers to funding and a lack of best practice guidelines, most units deliver prehabilitation. Units require higher quality evidence, consensus on the most important aspects of the intervention and core outcome sets to support the delivery of services and facilitate audit to assess the impact of their introduction.
Authors
- RC Walker
- Sowrav Barman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3949-5385)
- J Gossage
- Malcolm West (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0345-5356)
- Greg Whyte
- Nick Maynard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7897-8162)
- Sandy Jack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2763-7303)
- Andrew John Davies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7517-6938)
- Philip H. Pucher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-9930)
- Michael P. W. Grocott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9484-7581)
- T Underwood
Institutions
- King's College London (GB)
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Published
- 2024-11-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2024.0092
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.68
Funders
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Imperial College London
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- University College London
- University of Oxford
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust