👋 Hello everyone – here are our journal watch papers for March

This month I’ve treated us to four papers rather than the usual three!

1. Linking to one of the papers from last month – A group of experts call for a core outcome set for cancer prehabilitation research.

📄 International consensus is needed on a core outcome set to advance the evidence of best practice in cancer prehabilitation services and research [Link to Paper]

2. Can a cost-effectiveness evaluation run alongside a study looking at the effects of prehab in patients living with frailty?

📄  Cost-effectiveness of prehabilitation of elderly frail or pre-frail patients prior to elective surgery (PRAEP-GO) versus usual care – Protocol for a health economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial [Link to Paper]

3. Just how did COVID-19 lockdowns alter patients’ fitness and surgical outcomes?

📄 Preoperative aerobic fitness and perioperative outcomes in patients undergoing cystectomy before and after implementation of a national lockdown [Link to Paper]

4. Can nutritional supplementation help to preserve quality of life following surgery?

📄 Quality of life following perioperative optimization with nutritional supplements in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery for cancer: A randomized, placebo-controlled feasibility clinical trial [Link to Paper] 

🔗 You can find the articles by clicking on the link in brackets. If you don’t have access to the journals, many can be accessed using an NHS Athens account: click here to sign up

If you’re not an NHS worker and/or are struggling to access the articles please let me know. 

As always I’d love to hear your thoughts!