Level of ERAS understanding affects practitioners' practice and perception of early postoperative resumption of oral intake: a nationwide survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early postoperative resumption of oral intake is supposed to be safe and beneficial to patients recovery. However, practitioners still have great confusion and disagreement about postoperative resumption of oral intake. This is a nationwide survey to investigate the current status of clinical practice and practitioners' attitude toward postoperative resumption of oral intake along with their level of understanding of the ERAS guidelines.

Methods

An anonymous web-based survey questionnaire via mobile social platform was carried out in mainland China from December 11-20, 2020. The Wilcoxon signed rank test or chi-square test was used to compare the propensity of the resumption of oral intake.

Results

Totally 5370 responses were received, and 89% of them were

SUBMITTER: Huang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8588702 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature