Table 3.

Surgical prehabilitation definitions using inductive and deductive qualitative approaches. TiDER: Template for Intervention Description and Replication.

Method	Definition
Inductive qualitative approach using the most common keywords	‘Prehabilitation is a process from diagnosis to treatment that consists of an unimodal or multimodal preoperative intervention including exercise, nutrition, psychological strategies and/or respiratory training, and aims to enhance functional capacity and physiological reserve to allow patients to withstand surgical stressors, improve postoperative outcomes and facilitate recovery.’
Deductive qualitative approach using the TiDER checklist	‘Prehabilitation can be defined as a program delivered prior to surgery that may consist of a number of interventions including exercise therapy, nutritional optimisation, psychological strategies, respiratory training, medical optimisation, and education, and aims to enhance functional capacity and physiological reserve to allow a patient to withstand surgical stressors and improve postoperative outcomes.’
Proposed common definition	‘Prehabilitation is a process from diagnosis to surgery, consisting of one or more preoperative interventions of exercise, nutrition, psychological strategies and respiratory training, that aims to enhance functional capacity and physiological reserve to allow patients to withstand surgical stressors, improve postoperative outcomes, and facilitate recovery.’