Malnutrition is a frequent problem in patients with head and neck cancer. Prevention or timely treatment of malnutrition is of great importance because deteriorated nutritional status can have a negative effect on clinical outcome in head and neck cancer patients. Malnutrition is a multidimensional problem, …

Lectorale rede in het kader van de lectorinstallatie van dr. Harriët Jager-Wittenaar op 15 januari 2015 aan de Hanzehogeschool Groningen

In this cross-sectional study, we primarily aimed to assess prevalence of malnutrition by the Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PGSGA), and muscle strength in haemodialysis patients. Second, we explored to which extent these patients are able to complete the patient component of the PG-SGA, …

Rationale: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is a validated instrument to assess and monitor malnutrition, which consists of both patient-reported and professional-reported items. A professional should be able to correctly interpret all items. Untrained professionals may experience …

Adequate distinction between malnutrition, starvation, cachexia and sarcopenia is important in clinical care. Despite the overlap in physical characteristics, differences in etiology have therapeutical and prognostic implications. We aimed to determine whether dietitians in selected European countries …

Purpose: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), including the PG-SGA Short Form (SF, aka ‘abridged’), was originally developed in the mid 1990’s as a scored, patient self-report, paperbased instrument and has been widely validated. The PG-SGA (SF) has been used for screening, assessment …

Op de kinderafdeling kun je te maken krijgen met voedingsproblemen. In dit artikel bespreken logopedisten welke factoren bij het leren drinken en eten belangrijk zijn en ze gaan in op problemen die kunnen ontstaan bij de voeding en op de wijze waarop de problemen aangepakt kunnen worden.

Rationale: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is a validated instrument to assess malnutrition and its risk factors in clinical populations. Its patient component, PG-SGA Short Form (SF), can be used as screening instrument. In this cross-sectional study we aimed to assess agreement …

Eén van de eerste uitdagingen voor een te vroeg geboren baby is het leren drinken uit fles of borst. Voor de meeste op tijd geboren kinderen levert dit geen problemen op, maar te vroeg geboren baby’s hebben meer moeite met het coördineren van het zuigen, slikken en ademen tijdens het drinken. Er zijn …

Introduction: Malnutrition is a persistent problem in Ghana, with high rates of underweight children, stunting and wasting. One of the NGOs that is trying to turn this situation around is Project Share. Through their nutrition centre, they have already rehabilitated over 300 children since 2009. They …