Published on in Vol 10, No 8 (2021): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/16846, first published .
Association of Postoperative Clinical Outcomes With Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Nutritional Status in Older Patients With Colorectal Cancer: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study

Association of Postoperative Clinical Outcomes With Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Nutritional Status in Older Patients With Colorectal Cancer: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study

Association of Postoperative Clinical Outcomes With Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Nutritional Status in Older Patients With Colorectal Cancer: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study

Nia Angharad Humphry   1 , MBBS, BSc, MSc ;   Thomas Wilson   2 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Michael Christian Cox   3 , MD ;   Ben Carter   4 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Marco Arkesteijn   2 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Nicola Laura Reeves   5 , MBChB ;   Scott Brakenridge   6 , MS, MD ;   Kathryn McCarthy   7 , MBBS, MD ;   John Bunni   8 , MBChB, DipLapSurg ;   John Draper   2 , BSc, PhD ;   Jonathan Hewitt   9 , MBBS, PhD

1 School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

3 Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

4 Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, United Kingdom

5 Department of Surgery, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, United Kingdom

6 Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

7 North Bristol National Health Service Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom

8 Royal United Hospitals Bath National Health Service Foundation Trust, Bath, United Kingdom

9 Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Nia Angharad Humphry, MBBS, BSc, MSc
  • School of Medicine
  • Cardiff University
  • 9th Floor Neuadd Meirionydd
  • University Hospital of Wales
  • Cardiff, CF14 4XW
  • United Kingdom
  • Phone: 44 7815913222
  • Email: HumphryNA1@cardiff.ac.uk