The six-minute walk test as a measure of postoperative recovery after colorectal resection: further examination of its measurement properties

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2199-2206

  Pecorelli, Nicolò ^a   Fiore, Julio F ^a   Gillis, Chelsia ^a   Awasthi, Rashami ^a   Mappin Kasirer, Benjamin ^a   Niculiseanu, Petru ^a   Fried, Gerald M ^a   Carli, Francesco ^a   Feldman, Liane S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colorectal surgery; Laparoscopy; Physical function; Postoperative recovery; Six minute walk test; Validity evidence

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; EXPERIMENTAL LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY TEST; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIGMOIDECTOMY; SIX MINUTE WALK TEST; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; LAPAROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WALK TEST; WALKING;

AGED; COLONIC DISEASES; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WALK TEST; WALKING;

EID: 84940092984     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-015-4478-1     Document Type: Article

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