Perioperative Care in Colorectal Cancer Surgery before a Structured Implementation Program of the ERAS Protocol in a Regional Network. The Piemonte EASY-NET Project.

ABSTRACT: In 2019, the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol for colorectal cancer surgery was adopted by a minority of hospitals in Piemonte (4.3 million inhabitants, north-west Italy). The present analysis aims to compare the level of application of the ERAS protocol between hospitals already adopting it (ERAS, N = 3) with the rest of the regional hospitals (non-ERAS, N = 28) and to identify possible obstacles to its application. All patients surgically treated for a newly diagnosed colorectal cancer during September-November 2019, representing the baseline period of a randomized controlled trial with a cluster stepped-wedge design, were included. Indicators of compliance to the ERAS items were calculated overall and for groups of items (preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative) an

SUBMITTER: Pellegrino L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8775376 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature