To implement nutritional risk screening and evaluate the relationship of nutritional risk to complication rate and quality of life in patients with cancer. A large proportion of cancer inpatients were ...

Nutrition screening using the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) was implemented for adult patients in 2006. The aim of this study was to assess adherence to the screening programme over a 5 ...

Standard health surveys administered to elderly people to predict their risk for future hospitalization have not traditionally included questions on nutritional status, despite the importance of ...

This study is led by Dr. Han-Ping Shi (Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery/Department of Clinical Nutrition, Beijing Shijitan Hospital). In his daily work, Dr. Han-Ping Shi found that malnutrition ...

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Summary: A new study gives hospitals overall good marks for conducting nutrition screenings within 24 hours of a patient's admission, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite significant advancements in surgical technique, anesthesia and rehabilitation, nutritional status — an ...

While hospitals do not commonly screen children for nutrition, a new tool developed could change that. The Pediatric Nutrition Screening Tool (PNST) was found to be more effective than the existing ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

A full nutrition assessment should direct therapeutic diet selection for newly diagnosed dogs and cats with diabetes.

A new study published in PLOS Global Public Health contributes to the growing evidence that nutrition should be treated as a ...

Nutrition plays a vital role in the immune system’s ability to fight off, and recover from, infection. Steven Pearson-Brown explains how nutritional screening can identify and minimise the risk of ...