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 ...

Researchers conducted a prospective, observational study to explore the impact of nutritional status prior to cancer treatment initiation and mortality risk.

Objectives: To evaluate the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) and the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) with regard to validity using a combination of anthropometric and serum-protein measurements as ...

(the Alliance), an interdisciplinary partnership of five prestigious organizations formed to improve patient outcomes through nutrition intervention, today released its recommended Nutrition Care ...

The Nutrition Assessment Lab is dedicated to evaluating and improving nutritional health through cutting-edge tools and evidence-based methods. The lab provides you with hands-on experience using ...

Enteral nutrition is preferred over parenteral nutrition as a result of the greater safety of enteral nutrition therapy and comparative convenience. A wide variety of enteral nutrition products have ...

Measuring patient weight is considered a routine assessment that is frequently delegated to unregistered staff. Yet patient weight is a fundamental part of nutrition assessment and may be used to ...

In 1967, inpatient hospital costs comprised close to 63 percent of all Medicare payments, while the combined payments to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), home health agencies (HHAs), and outpatient ...