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

Background Prehabilitation aims to improve patients' functional capacity before surgery to reduce perioperative complications, promote recovery and decrease probability of disability. The planned economic evaluation is performed alongside a large German multi-centre pragmatic, two-arm parallel-...

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Published in:	BMC geriatrics Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 231 - 14
Main Authors:	Eckhardt, Helene, Quentin, Wilm, Silzle, Julia, Busse, Reinhard, Rombey, Tanja
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 06.03.2024 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Aged Aging Clinical trials Comparative analysis Cost analysis Cost benefit analysis Cost-effectiveness analysis Decision making Economics Elective surgery Evaluation Exercise Exercise therapy Frail Elderly Frailty Genotype & phenotype Geriatrics/Gerontology Health care Health care economics Health care evaluation mechanisms Health care industry Health care policy Health insurance Heart surgery Humans Inpatients Intervention Medical care, Cost of Medicine Medicine & Public Health Multicenter Studies as Topic Older people Orthopedics Outpatients Patients Phenotypes Physical therapy Prehabilitation Preoperative Exercise Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Rehabilitation Sensitivity analysis Shared decision making Study Protocol Surgery Teams Trial-based health economic evaluation Germany Cost-effectiveness analysis Trial-based health economic evaluation Prehabilitation Preoperative exercise Frailty Health care evaluation mechanisms Health care economics
ISSN:	1471-2318, 1471-2318
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