Timeline of study participants
| MDT | Outpatient clinic | Emergency/ inpatient | Day of surgery | POD 1 | POD 8 | POD 15 | POD 22 | POD 30 | POD 90 | |
| Screening for eligibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Informed Consent | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Baseline Characteristics | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Randomisation | ✓ | |||||||||
| Intraoperative variables | ✓ | |||||||||
| Postoperative outcomes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Allocation unblinding | ✓ | |||||||||
| Quality of Life score | ✓ | ✓(done prior to surgery if not already done) | ✓ | ✓ |
MDT, multidisciplinary team ; POD, postoperative day.