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 ...

Standard health surveys administered to elderly people to predict their risk for future hospitalization have not traditionally included questions on nutritional status, despite the importance of ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite significant advancements in surgical technique, anesthesia and rehabilitation, nutritional status — an ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

If I Have the Courage…I Prefer to See a Doctor: A Qualitative Exploration of Ethiopian Women’s Hesitancy to Screen for Cervical Cancer Using HPV Self-Sampling Malnutrition is a common and serious ...

Objective: Due to an increase in aging worldwide, assessment of the nutritional status of older people becomes an important matter. Malnutrition in older people increases the risk of infections, ...

A comprehensive review assessed the ways that proper nutrition could help reduce the adverse effects of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. A recent review published in the ...

LA PAZ, Honduras -- Service members and medical personnel performed an ongoing pediatric nutritional assessment of three villages within Department of La Paz, Honduras, from Nov. 7 to 9, 2017. Joint ...