BACKGROUND & AIMS Nutritional interventions for malnutrition in cancer patients can be helpful. However, concise intervention recommendations remain controversial. Thus, the aim of this study was to report on a nutrition intervention conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialist nurses and to explore the effect of nutritional intervention on cancer patients. METHODS This prospective cli...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To evaluate the feasibility and clinical outcome of a nutritional algorithm based on target calorie intake commenced as enteral nutrition (EN) alone or in combination with supplemental parenteral nutrition (SPN) among hospitalized patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, 301 hospitalized patients who were provided with nutritional support, including EN (n=125) or EN+SPN (n=17...

Malnutrition is very common among cancer patients, and associated with an increase in morbidity mortality. The highest prevalence of patients nutritional deficits seen those tumors the gastrointestinal tract (GEI). However severity malnutrition not assessed systemically Algerian GEI patients. This why implementation strategies to detect early at all stages disease essential take measures avoid ...

BACKGROUND Cancer disease is usually associated with impaired nutritional status, which is one of the factors contributing to deterioration of the results of surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to determine whether nutritional support with high protein (ONS) in adult oncologic patients in the first step of cancer cachexia-asymptomatic precachexia, has an...

O b j e c t i v e s : To examine whether augmented nutrition therapy (Volkert et al. 2006, Williams 2006) improves the general rehabilitation outcome of patients with neurogenic dysphagia compared to neurologic patients without dysphagia. S u b j e c t s / m e t h o d s : 127 stroke patients undergoing postacute multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation approach were routinely screened for neurogen...

The 'malnutrition universal screening tool' ('MUST') for adults has been developed for all health care settings and patient groups, but ease of use and agreement with other published tools when screening to identify malnutrition requires investigation. The present study assessed the agreement and the prevalence of malnutrition risk between 'MUST' and a variety of other tools in the same patient...

Objective: To compare nutritional risk in adult patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy in the beginning, middle, and end of oncologic treatment. Method: This prospective, comparative study included 83 adult patients, 44 undergoing chemotherapy (CT group) and 39 undergoing radiotherapy (RT group) at an oncology treatment center. Nutritional risk was determined by NRS-2002 in the beg...

Objective Poor recognition and monitoring of nutritional status is the most important cause of malnutrition in hospitalized patients. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of a group of patients and compare the results with their serum prealbumin levels. Methods Ninety-seven patients admitted consecutively to the hospital were enrolled in the study. The risk of malnutrition...

introduction: studies have indicated a global high prevalence of hospital malnutrition on admission and during hospitalization. clinical nutritional risk screen (cnrs) is a way to identify malnutrition and manage nutritional interventions. several traditional and non-computer based tools have been suggested for screening nutritional risk levels. the present study was an attempt to employ a comp...