Comprehensive care of chronic venous insufficiency and associated ulcers requires a multipronged and interprofessional approach to care. A comprehensive treatment approach includes exercise, nutritional assessment, compression therapy, vascular reconstruction, and advanced treatment modalities. National guidelines, meta-analyses, and original research studies provide evidence for the inclusion ...

OBJECTIVE Verify whether the postoperative fasting period increases the risk for infection and prolonged length of stay. METHODS Prospective cohort study. Elective surgery patients were included. Excluded: those with no conditions for nutritional assessment, admitted in minimal care units, as well as with <72h in-hospital stay. Postoperative fasting was recorded from the days of no nutrition ...

Nutritional screening and assessment in patients with malnutrition is the critical first step for nutritional care. Although nutritional assessment is a rigorous process that includes obtaining diet and medical history, current clinical status, physical examination, anthropometric data, laboratory data, and often functional and economic information, it is a very effective and worthy practice in...

INTRODUCTION Identification of low levels of health literacy is important for effective communication between providers and clients. Assessment instruments for general health literacy are inadequate for use in nutrition education encounters because they do not identify nutrition literacy. The primary objective of this 2-part study was to assess content validity for the Nutrition Literacy Assess...

BACKGROUND Body weight is a good indicator of a person's size and is widely used in clinical assessment. However, health-status assessment based on observed body weight (W(O)) is incorrect for persons with limb amputation. OBJECTIVES The objectives were 1) to develop a more accurate and generalized method for estimating body weight in persons with limb amputation, 2) to determine whether corr...

Despite the increased emphasis on chronic non-communicable diseases, there are notable deficits about nutrition education in many medicine training programs particularly gastroenterology fellowship programs. In the present cross-sectional study, we examined the nutritional knowledge related to clinical nutrition among Iranian gastroenterology fellows. Thirty-six gastroenterology fellows current...

Participants Students {mean age 12.8 y}* in middle or junior high school. Schools were eligible if they had ≥ 20% of students approved for the free and reduced price lunch programme and ≥ 30 students in each of the seventh and eighth grades. 3878 students completed the baseline survey in fall 1998, and 3503 (90%) completed the year end survey in spring 1999 (51% boys, 69% white). Intervention T...

Donald Ostwald, Jr., DVM, DABVP (Canine & Feline) Introduction The American Animal Hospital Association recommends these nutritional assessment guidelines because good nutrition enhances pets’ quality and quantity of life, and is integral to optimal animal care. Incorporating nutritional assessment into regular animal care is critical for maintaining pets’ health, as well as their response to d...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Consensus regarding definitions of malnutrition and methods to assess nutritional state is lacking. We propose a definition and its operationalization. METHODS A definition was formulated on the basis of the pathophysiology of malnutrition, while reviewing the metabolic and physiological characteristics of different populations, considered to be malnourished. The definition ...

Patients who become critically ill can have problems maintaining nutritional intake and it can be challenging for nurses to provide nutritional support. No one assessment method can identify each patient's risk of malnutrition, so nurses need to look at different aspects in their nutritional assessment and refer for specialist help from dietitians and nutrition support teams when needed. This a...