The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitals is high. No nutritional screening tool is considered the gold standard for identifying nutritional risk. The aims of this study were to evaluate nutritional ...

This study is led by Dr. Han-Ping Shi (Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery/Department of Clinical Nutrition, Beijing Shijitan Hospital). In his daily work, Dr. Han-Ping Shi found that malnutrition ...

While hospitals do not commonly screen children for nutrition, a new tool developed could change that. The Pediatric Nutrition Screening Tool (PNST) was found to be more effective than the existing ...

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to identify the nutritional status of older adults in a primary care setting by using a standardized nutritional tool and to improve clinical outcomes by ...

Maintaining proper patient nutrition This review discusses nutritional interventions and management of nutritional status in elderly patients with cancer. Malnutrition is associated with problems ...

Background/Aims: Hospitalized patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) can develop severe nutritional deficits. However, the nutritional screening tools with the most utility for such patients are still ...

Andrea Cartwright, RN, BSc, is nutritional nurse specialist, Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals NHS Trust Nutrition requires complex multidisciplinary organisational structures in hospitals but ...