Abstract Malnutrition is observed in around one three hospital inpatients; this harmful ICD10-AM-coded disease a strong independent predictor of adverse older adult and healthcare outcomes, mortality, treatment costs globally, particularly multimorbid, adults. Despite recognition malnutrition as disease, nutrition support prescriptions are often not valued the medicine to treat it. This chapter...

Specialized nutrition support should be offered to patients who are malnourished or at risk of becoming malnourished when it would benefit patient outcomes or quality of life. Improving the nutritional value of ingested food and tailoring intake to the patient's preferences, abilities, and schedule should be the first measures in addressing nutritional needs. When these interventions alone are ...

background: infertility is a major reproductive health in gynecology. according to the world health organization, there are currently 50-80 million infertile couples in the world. objective: considering the critical effects of lifestyle on reproductive health, this study aimed to compare the lifestyle of fertile and infertile couples in kermanshah during 2013. materials and methods: this resear...

Introduction: Infants born with congenital anomalies demand individualized nutritional evaluations and recommendations. The anatomical changes of neonatal surgical diseases create specific physiological constraints.Patients with different congenital anomalies have different nutritional support needs. It is essential to know the exact physiology of these anomalies in order to be able to manage a...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Many patients in hospitals are undernourished and nutritional care is inadequate in most hospitals. The aim of this investigation was to gain insight into how this situation could be improved. METHODS Seven hundred and fifty randomly selected patients were screened at admission in three hospitals and surveyed during their entire hospitalization. Each time a patient was not...

Background: Concern is growing about the malnutrition, nutrition therapy and its complications. Reduced involvement of nurses in patients’ nutritional care may be one of the contributing factors. The most common cause for insufficient nutritional practice is lack of nutritional knowledge. The purpose of the study was to determine knowledge-based nutrition competencies of nurses. Method and Mate...

T he management of surgical illness requires appropriate metabolic and physiologic adjustment to preserve tissue and organ function. A patient’s baseline nutritional status along with optimal nutritional support will provide the substrate to meet the increase in metabolic demand. Adequate response to metabolic demands allows the host to limit catabolism, promote wound healing, and muster a defe...

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...