Fit4Surgery app: Home-based prehabilitation app for older patients undergoing elective colorectal cancer surgery.

Background: Supervised multimodal prehabilitation prior to colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery is associated with reduced complications and enhanced recovery. However, it is labor intensive and expensive. In an aging population with increasing demand and costs on healthcare and staff shortages, home-based prehabilitation (HBP) with an app could be of interest.

Community-based prehabilitation in older patients and high-risk patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery.

Introduction: Prehabilitation before colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery is promising to prevent complications and to enhance recovery, especially in patients aged 70 or older or in patients with an American Society of Anaesthesiologist (ASA) physical classification score 3-4, for whom surgery is associated with higher postoperative complications and long-lasting adverse effects on functional performance.

Materials And Methods: A cohort study was conducted in a large teaching hospital in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Fifty CRC patients (≥70 years or ASA 3-4) underwent multimodal prehabilitation between September 2020 and July 2021.

The Validation of Geriatric Cases for Interprofessional Education: A Consensus Method.

Background: Case-based Interprofessional Education (IPE) can help students practise their roles and responsibilities. To construct these cases, input from experts in clinical practice is essential. Consensus between these experts can be facilitated using consensus methods.

Evaluation of PET/CT in patients with stage III malignant cutaneous melanoma.

In order to evaluate if patients with stage III-IV MCM are eligible for curative treatment PET/CT is performed. Since the diagnostic value of PET/CT is not unambiguously, a retrospective cohort study is performed to tailor optimal indication of PET/CT in patients with stage III MCM. A retrospective cohort study was conducted of all patients with stage III disease in a large oncologic teaching hospital in which PET/CT was performed from 2012 to 2016.