The aim of the study was to compare the Glasgow Nutritional Screening Tool with the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) recently recommended for use by the British Association for Parenteral ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers developed, implemented, and successfully tested a nutrition screener to enhance access to healthy resources for families eligible for federal food benefits. The findings were published ...

In a study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology of more than 5,000 acute coronary syndromes (ACS) patients, 71.8% were considered malnourished by at least one nutrition ...

See related research article by Caccialanza and colleagues, page 1843 The reported prevalence of poor nutritional status has varied widely in studies, in part because of different populations and ...

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 ...

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A University of Ulster researcher is leading the way in children’s nutrition with the development of a nutrition screening tool for children. In a joint initiative with the Western Health and Social ...

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