Chan, Dedrick Kok Hong http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4237-8648
Ang, Jia Jun
Tan, Jarrod Kah Hwee
Chia, Daryl Kai Ann
Article History
Received: 8 May 2020
Accepted: 3 July 2020
First Online: 8 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interests.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors. This study has been approved by the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board, with Reference Number 2019/00192.
: Consent from individual participants was not obtained for this study. Waiver of consent was obtained from the ethic committee due to the nature of the study.
: This article demonstrates that in spite of an ERAS protocol, elderly patients perform worse in terms of increased comorbidities, delayed time to soft diet, and prolonged hospital stay to their younger counterparts. The importance of these findings is that ERAS protocols should be tailored to meet the specific requirements of elderlies rather than a one size fits all approach in which young and elderly patients undergo the same protocol.