Diagnostic test accuracy of preoperative nutritional screening tools in adults for malnutrition: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. [PDF]
Background: Good nutritional screening tests can triage malnourished patients for further assessment and management by dietitians before surgery to reduce the risk of postoperative complications.
Cheung HHT, Joynt GM, Lee A.
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Nutritional Screening Tools in the Pediatric Population: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Background/Objectives: Disease-related malnutrition (DRM) is the most common type of malnutrition in industrialized countries, and it has a high associated morbidity.
Fachal CV +3 more
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Nutritional Risk Screening in Cancer Patients: The First Step Toward Better Clinical Outcome
Disease-related malnutrition is highly prevalent among cancer patients, with 40–80% suffering from it during the course of their disease. Malnutrition is associated with numerous negative outcomes such as: longer hospital stays, increased morbidity and ...
Emilie Reber +3 more
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Development of a nutritional screening and assessment indicator system for patients with esophageal cancer in China: Findings from the Delphi method [PDF]
Background In China, individuals diagnosed with esophageal cancer are confronted with an elevated risk of nutritional inadequacy or malnutrition throughout the course of their disease, a condition that contributes to various adverse clinical outcomes.
Jingjing Shang +7 more
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A Narrative Review Comparing Nutritional Screening Tools in Outpatient Management of Cancer Patients. [PDF]
Malnutrition during cancer has a negative impact on prognosis and quality of life. Therefore, it is important to identify those patients at higher nutritional risk to prevent its development.
Gil-Andrés D, Cabañas-Alite L.
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Diagnostic agreement of nutritional screening tools in obesity-related knee osteoarthritis [PDF]
ObjectiveTo evaluate the diagnostic agreement, ability to identify concealed malnutrition, and clinical risk stratification value of different nutritional screening tools in patients with obesity-related knee osteoarthritis (KOA).MethodsSingle-center ...
Zhiyuan Fan +7 more
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Efficiency analysis of nutritional screening tools for children with congenital heart disease: a retrospective observational study [PDF]
ObjectiveThis study aims to (1) determine the prevalence of malnutrition among hospitalized children with congenital heart disease (CHD), (2) evaluate the effectiveness of common pediatric nutritional screening tools across various age groups, and (3 ...
Ying Xu +7 more
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Low referral uptake, not patient adherence, limits implementation of early nutritional screening in head and neck and upper gastrointestinal cancers [PDF]
BackgroundMalnutrition is highly prevalent in patients with head and neck and upper gastrointestinal cancers and is associated with poorer clinical outcomes.
Irene Azzali +10 more
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Impact of nutritional screening on mortality and intensive care unit length of stay [PDF]
BackgroundNutritional assessment is a fundamental part of the treatment of patients hospitalized in the ICU, allowing the implementation of interventions appropriate to the identified requirements.
Blanca Cecilia Díaz Chavarro +6 more
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Ovarian cancer is a malignancy that seriously endangers women’s health; its case fatality rate ranks first among the gynecological malignancies. The status of nutrition of ovarian cancer patients is related to their prognoses.
Juan Mu +5 more
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