This narrative review presents a biological rationale and evidence to describe how the
preoperative condition of the patient contributes to postoperative morbidity. Any preoperative …

The world is currently facing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which places
great pressure on health care systems and workers, often presents with severe clinical …

Background & aims Elderly cancer patients are at particularly high risk for malnutrition
because both the disease and the old age threaten their nutritional status. The Global …

Since the beginning of the practice of surgery, the reduction of postoperative complications
and early recovery have been two of the fundamental pillars that have driven the …

Objectives To investigate the combined contribution of processes of hospitalization and
preadmission individual risk factors in explaining functional decline at discharge and at 1 …

Summary Introduction The Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002) identifies patients at
risk of malnutrition. We studied the prognostic implications of this score with regard to short …

Background and aims Patients with COVID-19 infection presents with a broad clinical
spectrum of symptoms and complications. As a consequence nutritional requirements are …

Pre‐operative nutrition therapy is increasingly recognised as an essential component of
surgical care. The present review has been formatted using Simon Sinek's Golden Circle …

Objective The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of nutritional risk and its
association with multiple adverse clinical outcomes in a large cohort of acutely ill medical …

Background & aims Hospitalized patients show a high rate of malnutrition, which is
associated with poor patient outcomes and high healthcare costs. However, relatively few …