Turning 'waiting lists' for elective surgery into 'preparation lists'

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¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Bury St. Edmunds, UK.
² Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), Churchill House, London, UK; Department of Critical Care, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK.
³ Gastrointestinal Surgery, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK; MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. Electronic address: dileep.lobo@nottingham.ac.uk.

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Nicholas Levy et al. Br J Anaesth. 2021 Jan.

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. 2021 Jan;126(1):1-5.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.021. Epub 2020 Sep 6.

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Bury St. Edmunds, UK.
² Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), Churchill House, London, UK; Department of Critical Care, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK.
³ Gastrointestinal Surgery, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK; MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. Electronic address: dileep.lobo@nottingham.ac.uk.

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Keywords: optimisation; prehabilitation; preparation for surgery; risk assessment; shared decision-making; surgery waiting lists.

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