BACKGROUND The assessment of nutritional status in clinical practice must be done with simple, reliable, low cost and easy performance methods. The power of handshake is recognized as a useful tool to evaluate muscle strength, and therefore, it is suggested that can detect malnutrition. AIM To evaluate the nutritional status by subjective global assessment and power of handshake preoperativel...

Image quality assessment means estimating the quality of an image and it is used for many image processing applications. Image quality can be measured in two ways, subjective and objective method. Objective method is more preferable than subjective because most of the time the original image is not available for the comparison and it is not that much expensive like the subjective method. These ...

BACKGROUND Early detection of changes in nutritional status is important for a better approach to the surgical patient. There are several nutritional measures in clinical practice, but there is not a complete method for determining the nutritional status, so, health professionals should only choose the best method to use. AIM To evaluate the total lymphocyte count and albumin as predictors of...