BACKGROUND NutritionDay is an annual worldwide cross-sectional multicentre audit. This report aimed to describe the results of nutritionDay 2010 in Jinling hospital, providing a map of the prevalence of malnutrition and actual nutrition therapy practice in different units. The risk factors to malnutrition and length of hospital stay were also investigated. METHODS The data was collected from ...

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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...

BACKGROUND A dietetics profession that conforms to the international standards for dietetics exists in many countries but not in the Peoples' Republic of China (China). Might China benefit from the presence of the dietetics profession? OBJECTIVE The article reviews the current dietetic situation in China, summarizes the gaps between current realities in China with respect to meeting needs for...

Professor Pennington was an advocate for quality in all aspects of nutrition support and its delivery, ensuring that the patient remained at the centre of all decisions, and that specialist artificial nutrition support was best managed by the multidisciplinary nutrition team and the education of the wider healthcare community. Within the conference theme of ‘Quality’, this commentary aims to ou...

Awareness of the nutritional requirements of inpatients has been sadly neglected for many years. Students in British medical schools are taught little about clinical nutrition and the role of the dietitian. Dietitians, on the other hand, spend four years learning the science of nutrition and dietetics. In most hospitals in Britain dietitians are responsible for giving advice on a wide range of ...

concepts not specifically rooted in the Constitution. However, in finding that the New York statutes violate the Equal Protection Clause, the Second Circuit itself seems to expand upon the meaning of "similarly circumstanced," positing a specific meaning to the phrase which cannot necessarily be proven. These two appellate decisions, Compassion in Dying v. Washington and Quill v. Vacco, clearly...

Many reports have highlighted the challenges to nutritional care that older people can face when they are in hospital. Nurses can influence and implement effective nutritional care for hospitalised older people. People at risk of malnutrition should be identified through screening and people who require help to eat and drink should receive appropriate help. This article explores some of the pra...

· To learn about the magnitude of the burden of the disease and the systemic involvement of chronic respiratory failure; · To learn about the interactions and complexity of mechanisms leading to undernutrition with compromise of metabolic active tissues, i.e. skeletal muscles; · To learn about the integration of nutritional support in pulmonary rehabilitation including exercise training for pat...

Despite the key role of nutrition in health and the almost universal use of supplemental feeding in the ICU, there is a lack of high-quality evidence to guide clinical practice. Enteral nutrition is superior to TPN in almost all circumstances and most patients in the ICU can be fed successfully by this route. There is little evidence to support the use of special feeds and the role of immunonut...