Nutritional status of people with intellectual disability (PWID) is always at risk and developing a dietary assessment tool important. This study aims to test reliability (inter-rater test-retest reliability) comparable validity (limit agreement against multiple pass 24-hour diet recall recorded by professional dietitian) recently developed kit, CIDDIE Kit©, that specialised for more dependent ...

Methods: The CFH diabetes team consisted of endocrinologists, a nurse practitioner, nurse diabetes educators, and a registered dietitian providing coordinated diabetes management during a patient’s hospital admission. The team conducted a prospective, nine-month study of its impact on both hospital and ambulatory glycemic control for patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of diabetes me...

INTRODUCTION Hospitalised elderly patients are at high risk of malnutrition due to the presence of chronic diseases and inadequate food intake. It was on this premise that a Malnutrition Risk Screening Tool-Hospital (MRST-H) was developed for identifying the risk of malnutrition among Malaysian elderly patients. METHODS A total of 181 respondents aged 65 years and above who had been admitted ...

BACKGROUND Effective interaction between care providers and patients is crucial for the success of most medical treatments; in nutritional medical treatment, it is of paramount importance. The aim of the present study was to ascertain the role of the dietitian-patient relationship and the counseling approach in influencing individual patient decisions to adhere to counseling by persisting with ...

It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that nutritional genomics provides insight into how diet and genotype interactions affect phenotype. The practical application of nutritional genomics for complex chronic disease is an emerging science and the use of nutrigenetic testing to provide dietary advice is not ready for routine dietetics practice. Registered dietitian nutrit...