caa a22 4500 38809771X CHVBK 20180307125308.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0029665199001111 doi S0029665199001111 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0029665199001111 Corish Clare A. Unit of Nutrition and Dietetic Studies, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Republic of Ireland Pre-operative nutritional assessment [Elektronische Daten] [Clare A. Corish] Protein-energy undernutrition, or the possibility of its development, has been documented to occur frequently in surgical patients admitted to hospital. Nutritional status is known to deteriorate over the course of the hospital stay, with poor awareness by medical and nursing staff as to the deleterious effects of impaired nutritional status on clinical outcome and hospital costs. While there is no consensus on the best method for assessment of the nutritional status of surgical patients pre-operatively, there are a number of techniques available. These techniques can be divided into two types, those suitable for screening for nutrition risk on admission to hospital and those used to fully assess nutritional status. Both techniques have their limitations, but if used correctly, and their limitations recognized, should identify the appropriate degree of nutritional intervention for an individual patient in a timely and cost-effective manner. The techniques currently available for nutritional screening and nutritional assessment are reviewed, and their applicability to the Irish setting are discussed in the present paper. The Nutrition Society Undernutrition nationallicence Nutritional screening nationallicence Nutritional assessment nationallicence Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/4(1999-11), 821-829 0029-6651 58:4<821 1999 58 PNS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199001111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199001111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Corish Clare A. Unit of Nutrition and Dietetic Studies, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Republic of Ireland NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/4(1999-11), 821-829 0029-6651 58:4<821 1999 58 PNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge