Scoping review protocol of prehabilitation interventions for primary arthroplasty.
Prithi Pillay-Jayaraman, Stacy Maddocks, Verusia Chetty
PMID 37065453WHAT IT FOUND
This paper outlines the plan for a future scoping review.
It defines which databases will be searched and which studies will be included, but it does not present any findings on the effectiveness of prehabilitation interventions.
What this paper is
This is a protocol describing how a scoping review will be conducted. It lists search strategies and inclusion criteria for future work but reports no results, no synthesized findings, and no evidence on prehabilitation outcomes. There is nothing here to act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this paper summarizes the current evidence for prehabilitation. It only describes the method for a future review; no studies have been analyzed or results reported yet.