Expert Consensus on Self-Reported Physical, Nutritional, and Psychological Screening Tools for Prehabilitation in Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: An International Delphi Study
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2026年3月14日
- Jack Reeves,
- Sascha Karunaratne,
- Kate Alexander,
- Alexandria Petridis,
- Sharon Carey,
- Haryana M. Dhillon,
- Linda Denehy,
- Michael Solomon,
- Bernhard Riedel,
- Cherry Koh,
- Kate McBride,
- Chelsia Gillis,
- Kate White,
- Nicholas Hirst,
- Zaid Shadid,
- Ishraque Rahman,
- Neil Pillinger,
- Daniel Steffens,
- Abdalla Hadhoud,
- Abdelatte Ghanam,
- Abdelilah Ghannam,
- Abdelmoiz Mohamed,
- Abdelrahim Ahmed,
- Abdelrahman Mohamedali,
- Abdirahman Osman,
- Abdulaleem A. Esmail,
- Abdulhamid Shaban,
- Abdulrahman Mohammed,
- Abdulzahra Hussain,
- Abdullah Al-Mehdhar,
- Abdullah Alyami,
- Achraf Drissi-El-Bouzaidi,
- Aeshah Alqathafi,
- Ahmed Ahmayda,
- Ahmed Elsayed Tharwat Abdelsalam,
- Ahmed Ibrahim MohamedMohamed,
- Ahmed Musbah,
- Ahmed Shoman,
- Ahmed Wahaballah,
- Aiman Al-Touny,
- Aiman Hussien,
- Akrem Amer,
- Amina Houmada,
- Amr Badawy,
- Andrea B. Maier,
- Andreas Denys,
- Andrew Davies,
- Angel Becerra-Bolaños,
- Angela Jerath,
- Anjum Khan Joad,
- Anthony Absalom,
- Areej Ahmed Al-Qaidani,
- Aras Emre Canda,
- Ashleigh Maske,
- Ashu Sara Mathai,
- Awab Hamid,
- Ayah Attallah,
- Ayten Saracoglu,
- Badr Aldeen Al-Tayar,
- Barbara Sinner,
- Basantha Kumar Rayani,
- Behic Girgin,
- Bernhard Riedel,
- Bisher Sawaf,
- Birgitte Brandstrup,
- Bodil Andersson,
- Brendan Moran,
- Brendon Roxburgh,
- Bruno Romanò,
- Carol Keen,
- Catarina Tiselius,
- Chelsia Gillis,
- Chloe Grimmett,
- Christian Beilstein,
- Cindy Yeoh,
- Claus Anders Bertelsen,
- Dario Baratti,
- Darren Au,
- David Clark,
- Declan Dunne,
- Denny Levett,
- Despoina Liotiri,
- Dimitrios Schizas,
- Dominique Engel,
- Dorian Krsul,
- Edoardo Virgilio,
- Ebrahim Ali Mohammed Amrein,
- Eleni Kitsou,
- Elharith Abduelfattah Gaber Mohammed,
- Elissavet Anestiadou,
- Emily Traer,
- Engy Elkoury,
- Enrique Alday Muñoz,
- Erik Nordenström,
- Erdinç Kamer,
- Eslam Elshenawy,
- Ewen Harrison,
- Fabio Ausania,
- Fadwa Fuad Abdulwahid Mansoor,
- Fatima Elmobark,
- Fernando Arduini,
- Fevzi Cengiz,
- Francesk Mulita,
- Francesco Mongelli,
- Francesco Pata,
- Frank Frizelle,
- Frederik Berrevoet,
- Gabrielle H. Van Ramshorst,
- Gianluca Pellino,
- Grainne Sheill,
- Gregg Nelson,
- Hadeer Alsadeg Mohammed,
- Hande Gurbuz,
- Hans D. De Boer,
- Hamid Aslami,
- Hamza Elhamzaoui,
- Hashem Abu Serhan,
- Haidara Bohsas,
- Heleen Driessens,
- Helena Pereira,
- Helmut Raab,
- Iacopo Cappellini,
- Ian Randall,
- Ianthe Boden,
- Ileana Lulic,
- Ilenia Merlini,
- Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin,
- Jakub Chmelo,
- James Durrand,
- Janine Bothe,
- Jason Park,
- Jayson Moloney,
- Jenelle Loeliger,
- Jonathan Hardman,
- Joost Klaase,
- Jose Ignacio García-Sánchez,
- Julia Dubowitz,
- Julie Hallet,
- Junichiro Kawamura,
- Jyotirmay Kirtania,
- Kari Clifford,
- Kariem El-Boghdadly,
- Kate McBride,
- Khaled Abdelwahab,
- Khalid Osman Mohamed,
- Kheng-Seong Ng,
- Khloud Ali M. Dahan Saeed,
- Kimberley Bostock,
- Kilian Brown,
- Kristy-Lee Raso,
- Kyrillos Nassim,
- Kylie Hill,
- Kwong Weng Loh,
- Lara Edbrooke,
- Laura Lorenzon,
- Lewis Matthews,
- Linda A. Antonucci,
- Linda Edgar,
- Lissa Spencer,
- Louise Brennan,
- Magdalena Sielewicz,
- Magdalena Taube,
- Mahmoud Eissa,
- Majd Chaaban,
- Malcolm West,
- Malak Ghemmeid,
- Malek Balkhi,
- Manazir Athar,
- Marc Pocard,
- Marc Van De Velde,
- Marco Sparavigna,
- Marcos Gómez Ruiz,
- Marie-Louise Lydrup,
- María García Nebreda,
- Marta Ubre,
- Massimo Falconi,
- Michael Hii,
- Michael Kelly,
- Miguel Leon-Arellano,
- Moataz Maher Emara,
- Mohamed Al Gharyani,
- Mohamed Alsori,
- Mohamed Elbahnasawy,
- Mohamed Fouad Abdrabo,
- Mohamed Ghula,
- Mohamed Said,
- Mohamed Sherif Ali Ahmed,
- Mohammed Abdallah Mohammed Kheer Almotaared,
- Mohammed Al-Shehari,
- Mohammed Anass Majbar,
- Mohammed Izzaldin,
- Mohammed Omar,
- Mohammed Sarhan Alkhallatee,
- Mogahid Ahmed,
- Momin Hilles,
- Mostafa Algabri,
- Moyasar Awad,
- Msara Haider,
- Muhamad Kanjo,
- Nada Wd Badr,
- Nader Hanna,
- Nassila Krita,
- Natasa Kovac,
- Neil Pillinger,
- Nermina Rizvanovic,
- Nivedhyaa Srinivasaraghavan,
- Nurhilal Kiziltoprak,
- Orestis Ioannidis,
- Omar Ahmed Abdelwahab,
- Osman Osman,
- Oumayma Lahnaoui,
- Pankaj Roy,
- Pamela Klassen,
- Patrice Forget,
- Patricia Sylla,
- Paul Sutton,
- Pawel Kabata,
- Pawel Mroczkowski,
- Per J. Nilsson,
- Petra Bor,
- Peter Ihnát,
- Peter Noordzij,
- Peter Paal,
- Philip H. Pucher,
- Piotr Major,
- Qiang Wang,
- Rafat Muharam,
- Raquel García Álvarez,
- Rasha Shrayyef,
- Rashed Alweshah,
- Reham Atef Zaki Mohamed,
- Rhonda Farrell,
- Riccardo Caruso,
- Riyadh Ikreedeegh,
- Robert Arnold,
- Roberto Falz,
- Rohan Miegel,
- Rosalia Navarro-Perez,
- Ross Dolan,
- Safia Adem,
- Saleem Ahmed,
- Sami Sannoufa,
- Sandra Auld,
- Sara S. Elsheikh,
- Sarah Abdelmohsen,
- Sarah Braungart,
- Sasa Rajsic,
- Sawsan Ismail,
- Semra Demirli Atici,
- Seymanur Altintas Filizoglu,
- Shannon Philp,
- Sharon Carey,
- Shelby Yaceczko,
- Simone Manfredelli,
- Sorrel Burden,
- Sophie Hogan,
- Stefano Mancin,
- Styliani Apostolaki,
- Susana González-Suárez,
- Talat Abu Salem,
- Tania Triantafyllou,
- Tarik Sammour,
- Tim Bright,
- Tom Parkington,
- Varsha Gorey,
- Vasileios Mousafeiris,
- Varut Lohsiriwat,
- Victor Zaydfudim,
- Walter R. Frontera,
- Walid Ibrahim,
- Waled Aljbali,
- Wilton Van Klei,
- Yasemin Yıldırıms,
- Yousef Abo Alsoud,
- Zakaria Belkhadir
摘要
Prehabilitation can decrease postoperative complications and enhance recovery for people with gastrointestinal cancer. Preoperative screening may identify individuals at highest risk of poor postoperative outcomes, enabling targeted and tailored interventions. Despite this, optimal tools for screening patients before surgery remain unclear. This Delphi study sought to achieve international consensus on appropriate screening tools to identify patients at increased risk of postoperative complications before undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
MethodsA three-round iterative Delphi survey was distributed to a global multidisciplinary network of prehabilitation experts. Respondents were asked to rate screening tools, identified through a scoping review, on a 5-point Likert scale based on the appropriateness of their use for adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery. The screening tools were categorized as evaluating either physical, nutritional, or psychological domains. A consensus criterion was applied in the second and third rounds, which required ≥ 70% of respondents to rate a given tool as ≥ 4 for it to proceed to future rounds.
ResultsOverall, 308 self-nominated prehabilitation experts rated the screening tools. Of 26 screening tools (including 9 physical, 7 nutritional, and 10 psychological), consensus was achieved for three physical, three nutritional, and four psychological tools.
ConclusionBased on Delphi consensus of global prehabilitation experts, 10 self-reported screening tools reached consensus. Given that tool selection was informed by Delphi consensus rather than empirical validation, prospective studies are necessary to assess whether these instruments accurately stratify surgical risk and identify candidates most likely to benefit from prehabilitation.