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There is a lack of evidence regarding the economic effects of nutrition support in patients at nutritional risk. The aim of this study was to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis by comparing an adequate nutrition support cohort with a no-support cohort.A prospective observational study was performed in the surgical and medical gastroenterology wards. We identified patients at nutritional risk and...
This multicenter, prospective cohort study evaluated the effect of preoperative nutritional support in abdominal surgical patients at nutritional risk as defined by the Nutritional Risk Screening Tool 2002 (NRS-2002).A consecutive series of patients admitted for selective abdominal surgery in the Peking Union Medical College Hospital and the Beijing University Third Hospital in Beijing, China were...
To evaluate the impact of nutritional support on clinical outcomes in patients at nutritional risk defined by the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002.In this prospective cohort study, hospitalized patients from three departments in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and two teaching hospitals in Beijing were recruited from March 2007 to May 2008. Data were collected on the nutritional risk screening,...
We tested the feasibility of using the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 tool among hospitalized medical patients in Beijing and Baltimore and determined the prevalence of nutritional risk, nutritional support, and nutritional risk changes from admission to discharge or over a 2-wk period.A comparative design was used to compare data collected at Beijing and Baltimore teaching hospitals from April 2006...
Traditional parenteral nutrition (PN) and chemotherapy may lead to changes of mucosal morphology and gut barrier function. This study investigated the effect of alanyl-glutamine (Ala-Gln) on intestinal morphology and gut barrier function in PN-fed rats challenged with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Male Wistar rats were centrally catheterized and then randomized to receive PN devoid of glutamine (control...
The policy of routine intravenous albumin supplementation for low serum albumin in very sick patients is being discouraged because such therapy has not proven to be effective in improving clinical outcome. Still a lot of physicians continue this practice. A retrospective analysis was thus undertaken of 27 adult hospitalized patients referred to our nutrition support service over a one-year period...
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