This article explains how to carry out nutritional assessments in neonatal patients. The purpose of nutritional assessment is to document objective nutritional parameters, identify nutritional ...

Anthropometric measures: Physical measurements of the body, such as height, weight, and body circumference, used to assess nutritional status. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is ...

Aims To identify nutritional issues experienced and develop a nutrition assessment tool to sensitively determine and deliver nutritional care to meet the needs of patients and carers. Methods A ...

Aims To determine the most reliable method for a nutritional assessment in a child with cerebral palsy with a GMFCS level IV-V. Methods The review is in four parts: A review of the reasons behind this ...

The construct of malnutrition has three domains: intake or uptake of nutrition; body composition and physical and cognitive function. The objectives of this systematic review are to identify ...

No universally accepted paediatric nutritional screening tool exists. This study aimed to evaluate validity and ease of use two new instruments, STAMP and STRONG, for the assessment of nutritional ...

Individualized nutritional strategies relying on risk assessment tools or biomarkers deserve further investigation in rigorously designed, large, multicenter, randomized, controlled trials.

Introduction Motor neurone disease (MND) is a fatal, progressive, neurodegenerative disease with a median survival from onset of symptoms of 4.32 years. No controlled trials indicate a benefit, ...

Nutrition, policy, public health, evidence, health technology assessment Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are ...

Introduction Patients with cirrhosis are frequently malnourished and this has a detrimental effect on outcome in terms of complications, survival after liver transplantation and overall liver-related ...