Perioperative Medicine for Older People Undergoing Surgery Scale Up (POPS-SUp): study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgery provides definitive management of many age-related diseases, relieving symptoms or extending life. Age-related physiological decline, multimorbidity, and frailty predispose older people to postoperative complications and incomplete functional recovery, with resultant health and social care costs. These age-related conditions can be optimized using Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), thus mitigating perioperative risk to improve clinical outcomes with cost-effectiveness. National organizations advocate CGA-based services for older surgical patients. However, there is variation in the provision of CGA-based perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) services across the UK National Health Service, resulting in inequitable access for olde

SUBMITTER: Dhesi JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12628784 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature