A desnutrição hospitalar afeta negativamente no tratamento da cura de patologias que podem acarretar na qualidade vida indivíduos hospitalizados. importância nutrição adequada para estes pacientes garante não apenas a melhora do quadro clínico como restauração bem-estar paciente. O objetivo estudo foi investigar comparação métodos triagem nutricional em hospitalizados por meio dos questionários...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a prevalent complication in patients on maintenance hemodialysis. Nutritional screening tools may be useful to identify those patients at nutritional risk from among hundreds of hemodialysis patients in a large facility. OBJECTIVE We tested several simplified nutritional screening tools on hemodialysis patients to validate the potential application of the tools. D...

Abstract Background Malnutrition is a component of Frailty Syndrome characterized by weakness, poor nutritional status and reduced cognitive function. has been recognized to adversely affect post Cardiovascular Surgery outcomes in the elderly. In developing countries, can occur younger patients from Rheumatic Heart Disease earlier onset Atherosclerotic Disease. There limited data on frailty you...

Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are often malnourished before starting the primary or adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) chemoradiotherapy (CRT). Due to therapy related adversary effects of RT CRT number patients rises 88% during ongoing therapy. Malnutrition can have a negative influence on therapycourse clinical outcome. There still not enough prospective, randomized studi...

Background Children with cancer are in risk of malnutrition. Nutritional risk assessmentis more importance in developing countries. The aim of present study was to investigate the nutritional risk in admitted children with cancer. Materials and Methods One hundred admitted children newly diagnosed with cancer were studied at the time of admission, after 3 and 6 months.Demographic characteristic...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a clinical state resulting in prolonged hospital stay, increase in severity of infections and poor wound healing. AIMS Our aim was to investigate the prevalence and etiologic factors of malnutrition in medical inpatients. STUDY DESIGN A total of 290 consecutively admitted internal medicine patients from February to May 2012 were included. On admission, demographic...

BACKGROUND Hospital readmission is gathering increasing attention as a measure of health care quality and a potential cost-saving target. The purpose of this prospective study was to determine risk factors for readmission within 30 days of discharge after gastrectomy for patients with gastric cancer. METHODS We conducted a prospective study of patients undergoing radical gastrectomy for gastr...

conclusions although the high prevalence of health disorders was found among schoolchildren, these rates were lower than those of previous studies in other regions. results of the current study can help health policy makers to design educational programs concerning dental and public health interventions to deal with nutritional problems in children. materials and methods this cross-sectional st...