Nutritional Assessment of Palliative Patients with Intestinal Failure
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition Methodology & Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 March 2024) | Viewed by 1325
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Malnutrition has a high prevalence in cancer patients as well as patients with benign disease entering palliative management care paths. Malnutrition has a close relationship with mortality, morbidity and treatment-related problems and also quality of life. Improving the nutritional status of these patients is a major challenge for healthcare professionals. Generally, the treatment of patients with cancer depends on the stage the malignant disease is in and can be curative or palliative. In both situations malnutrition can negatively affect patients, their therapy, their outcome and their quality of life. Therefore, nutritional status assessment is essential for the diagnosis of malnutrition and the multidisciplinary management required. Equally—for patient suffering from Type 3 Intestinal failure due to benign disease and entering palliative management—the effects of malnutrition need to be recognised and acted up on with the aim to improve quality of life and ensure metabolic stability.
For this special issue, we welcome studies that use, evaluate, or critically discuss traditional and/or novel approaches to nutritional assessment related to the prevention and treatment of malnutrition in patients with palliative malignancies and intestinal failure or patients who have benign disease but being palliatively managed. We hope that this special issue will share valuable knowledge and encourage discussion of nutritional assessment, including but not limited to assessing patient dietary nutritional methods in clinical and home-based settings and infrastructure, to better guide care for patients with palliative Type 3 intestinal failure.
Dr. Antje Teubner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- malnutrition
- cancer patients
- nutritional support
- palliative care
- assessment
- dietary
- healthcare
