The British journal of surgery
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Improving communication and patient information recall via a question prompt list: randomized clinical trial.
Patient-surgeon communication is an important component of the success of a consultation and is known to impact patient outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a document called a question prompt list, containing suggested questions that a patient may like to ask their doctor, improved communication. ⋯ ACTRN12623000089639 (http://www.ANZCTR.org.au).
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Multicenter Study
Long-term outcome after surgical resection of non-high-risk gastrointestinal stromal tumours without adjuvant therapy.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) is the most common intra-abdominal sarcoma. Risk classification systems, commonly the modified National Institutes of Health consensus criteria, identify tumour properties relating to patient outcomes. However, owing to limited long-term evidence, most guidelines recommend up to 10-year follow-up for all risk groups except very low-risk GIST. ⋯ Patients with completely resected non-high-risk GISTs have an excellent long-term outcome, irrespective of risk group. Follow-up programmes to detect disease recurrences in these patients are probably not indicated.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of home-based prehabilitation on postoperative complications after surgery for gastric cancer: randomized clinical trial.
Recent studies have demonstrated that prehabilitation improves patients' physical fitness but its impact on postoperative morbidity remains unclear. This study aimed to assess the effect of personalized, multimodal, semisupervised, home-based prehabilitation on postoperative complications after surgery for gastric cancer. ⋯ NCT04223401 (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov).