Table 1.
Criteria | Category | Description |
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Inclusion criteria | Design | • RCTs or pseudo RCTs |
Participants | • Adults 18 years scheduled to undergo abdominal surgery for cancer with at least 10 study participants. | |
Intervention | • Studies that evaluated a modality of exercise prehabilitation, including whole body or respiratory exercises, including education as a stand-alone intervention or included with a framework of multimodal interventions | |
Comparison | • A similar patient-group that was not exposed to a prehabilitation program (e.g., standard care with no intervention). | |
Outcome measures | • Studies that include a measure of cardiorespiratory fitness/functional capacity and/or measures of postoperative outcome |
RCTs, randomised controlled trials.