NHS Grampian Aberdeen

This work asks what we look for as the definition of ‘success’ in elderly patients. By undertaking a scoping review, we explored the published colorectal literature to report what outcomes are described for this challenging, and growing, cohort of patients. We highlight a low number of patient-centred outcomes assessed. INTRODUCTION Colorectal cancer is a major public and global health concern. It is the third highest cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide [1].

DISCUSSION To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to identify specific timepoints in the surgical care pathway where reduction in time to care can alleviate worse outcomes associated with infection in emergency surgery and to demonstrate this within a consecutive unselected emergency surgical patient population undergoing EmLap.