Dieetbegeleiding vormt de kern van de dieetbehandeling door diëtisten. Voor de doeltreffendheid van een behandeling is optimale begeleiding cruciaal. Maar welke strategieën dragen bij aan effectieve begeleiding van cliënten?

Objectives: In Dutch hospitals malnutrition screening is routinely performed at admission, but not during follow-up or before discharge. Therefore we evaluated nutritional status during hospitalization and predischarge in a routine care setting. Methods: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment …

Background/objectives: Traditional malnutrition screening instruments, including the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), strongly rely on low body mass index (BMI) and weight loss. In overweight/obese patients, this may result in underdetection of malnutrition risk. Alternative instruments, …

Background and aims: Malnutrition screening is a first step in the nutrition care process for hospitalized patients, to identify those at risk of malnutrition and associated worse outcome, preceding further assessment and intervention. Frequently used malnutrition screening tools including the Malnutrition …

In this cross-sectional study, we assessed the feasibility of completing the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) in long-stay nursing home residents.

In patients with cancer, weight loss can be related to simple starvation, disturbed metabolism, or both. In patients with head and neck cancer (HNC), weight loss often is attributed to simple starvation because the obvious oral symptoms are known to hinder dietary intake. In this population, cachexia …