Development of a feasible and acceptable digital prehabilitation pathway to improve elective surgical outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To codesign and assess the feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of a hospital-initiated, community delivered approach to health optimization (prehab) prior to planned surgery.

Design

Participatory codesign combined with a prospective, observational cohort study (April-July 2022).

Setting

A large metropolitan tertiary referral service with 2 participating hospitals.

Participants

All people referred for orthopaedic assessment for joint replacement surgery (hip or knee) triaged as category 2 or 3. Exclusions: category 1; no mobile number. Response rate 80%.

Intervention

My PreHab Program is a digitally enabled pathway that screens participants for modifiable risk factors for post-operative complications and provides tailored inf

SUBMITTER: Linedale EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9947781 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature