Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of prehabilitation for frail patients into routine health care: a realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite evidence supporting the effectiveness of prehabilitation as a new preoperative care pathway to optimise perioperative outcomes, its implementation into routine health care is widely pending. Frail patients might particularly benefit from prehabilitation interventions, but facilitating and hindering factors need to be considered in the implementation process. Thus, our aim was to derive a programme theory on what prehabilitation programmes work for frail patients in what circumstances and why.

Methods

Following Pawson's realist review approach, preliminary programme theories on facilitators and barriers were established. General and topic-specific databases were searched systematically for facilitators and barriers to the implementation of prehabilitation f

SUBMITTER: Sontag AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10863196 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature