Advances in Digestive Surgery: Patient-Centered Outcomes, Quality of Life, and Multidisciplinary Innovation
A special issue of Clinics and Practice (ISSN 2039-7283).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 95
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the era of personalized medicine, surgical success cannot be measured exclusively through technical parameters or survival rates, but must necessarily include patient quality of life as a primary outcome. Innovative interventions in digestive surgery should not only be evaluated for their technical efficacy, but also for their impact on digestive function, nutritional status, psychological well-being, and return to daily activities.
This Special Issue represents a unique opportunity to gather contributions that demonstrate how a multidisciplinary approach integrating surgeons, gastroenterologists, nutritionists, psychologists, and other specialists can not only optimize immediate clinical results, but also long-term quality of life for patients undergoing digestive surgery.
This Special Issue will provide a significant contribution to the scientific literature and to daily clinical practice.
Dr. Baudolino Mussa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digestive surgery
- surgical innovations
- multidisciplinary approach
- patient quality of life
- long-term outcomes
- nutritional status
- postoperative recovery
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