ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023
Physiotherapy and Exercise Management of People Undergoing Surgery for Lung Cancer: A Survey of Current Practice across Australia and New Zealand.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06716437 (Digitally Enabled Prehabilitation in a Community-based Setting for Patients Undergoing Lung Cancer Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Digitally Enabled Prehabilitation in a Community-based Setting for Patients Undergoing Lung Cancer Surgery
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The use of technology in cancer prehabilitation: a systematic review.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- I want to get better; I don't want to just stay at home: a theory-driven qualitative exploration of participation in a home-based lung cancer exercise clinical trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Trial
- Home-Based Exercise and Self-Management After Lung Cancer Resection: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Article
- Development of a clinical core outcome set to evaluate lung cancer rehabilitation.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- Implementation of a preoperative exercise programme in lung cancer resection: protocol for a mixed-methods study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs: We Do Not Have All the Answers Yet.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Empowering Recovery: A Co-Designed Intervention to Transform Care for Operable Lung Cancer.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Thoracic Cancer Exercise Services in Australia: A Point-Prevalence Survey.Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundModerate- to high-certainty evidence supports the benefits of pre- and post-operative exercise for people undergoing surgical resection for lung cancer. Despite this, exercise programs are not commonly provided. Previous data regarding exercise practices are a decade old. Therefore, this study aimed to understand current exercise practices in surgical lung cancer care in Australia and New Zealand.
methodsAn online cross-sectional survey of Australian and New Zealand allied health professionals specialising in exercise-based interventions was carried out. Survey development and reporting adhered to CHERRIES and CROSS checklists. Institutions with thoracic surgery departments were invited to participate via email, and additional responses were sought via snowballing.
resultsThe response rate was 81%, with a total of 70 health services responding. A total of 18 (26%) pre-operative services, 59 (84%) inpatient post-operative services, and 39 (55%) community/outpatient post-operative services were identified. Only eight (11%) services provided a pre-operative exercise program. Half of the respondents referred less than 25% of patients to community/outpatient exercise programs on hospital discharge. Respondents reported that their clinical management was predominantly influenced by established workplace practices and personal experience rather than evidence.
conclusionsThe availability and uptake of pre- and post-operative exercise remain low, and work should continue to make pre/post-operative exercise training usual practice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.