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    Background Prehabilitation aims at enhancing patients’ functional capacity and overall health status to enable them to withstand a forthcoming stressor like surgery. Our aim was to synthesise the evidence on the cost-effectiveness of prehabilitation for patients awaiting elective surgery compared with usual preoperative care. Methods We searched PubMed, Embase, the CRD database, ClinicalTrials.gov, the WHO ICTRP and the dissertation databases OADT and DART. Studies comparing prehabilitation for patients with elective surgery to usual preoperative care were included if they reported cost outcomes. All types of economic evaluations (EEs) were included. The primary outcome of the review was cost-effectiveness based on cost–utility analyses (CUAs). The risk of bias of trial-based EEs was assessed with the Cochrane risk of bias 2 tool and the ROBINS-I tool and the credibility of model-based EEs with the ISPOR checklist. Methodological quality of full EEs was assessed using the CHEC checklis

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    This guest post comes from Jaime Bellamy, DO in response to a recent randomized clinical trial reported in JAMA Network Open and featured in MedPage Today.

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    • Does “Prehabilitation” Prior to TKA Help or Not? @jaimelbellamyDO https://t.co/g0LQ6Sta5O #prehabilitation #rehabilitation #physicaltherapy #physiotherapy #totalkneearthroplasty #TKA #osteoarthritis https://t.co/0gZIKhWBt4

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    Nearly half of individuals in Western society will undergo abdominal or pelvic surgery in their lifetime.1 After abdominal surgery, 30% of patients will suffer postoperative complications such as surgical site infections.2-5 These complications affect the patient (quality of life and morbidity), healthcare system (cost and chronic disease), and hospitals (cost and space).6,7

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    • Despite a strong theoretical basis supporting prehabilitation, it is not associated with a robust decrease in rate of complication among patients undergoing nonbariatric abdominal and pelvic surgery. https://t.co/FqBP3Sm42v #SoMe4Surgery #prehabilitation https://t.co/KgeuOpiDY6