Cost-effectiveness of prehabilitation prior to elective surgery: a systematic review of economic evaluations.

ABSTRACT:

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-base

SUBMITTER: Rombey T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10354976 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature