Observational studyAnaesthesiology intensive therapy2023
Malnutrition risk in elective surgery patients and effectiveness of preoperative nutritional interventions at a pre-anaesthetic clinic: a 4-year apart, single-centre, observational study.
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- Optimizing Perioperative Nutrition in Elective Gastrointestinal Surgery: An ERAS-Focused Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- The Nutritional Status of Patients with Heart Failure and Its Impact on Patient' Outcomes-The Center's Own Experience.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Malnutrition in People Hospitalized for Surgery: Prospective Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition: a bibliometric analysis of research trends and contributions (2018-2024).Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
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- Trends in Nutritional Status and Dietary Behavior in School-Aged Children with Congenital Heart Defects.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- PreScheck Team Study: prehabilitation clinic as an effective patient management tool in elective cardiac surgery.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2024Observational
- Nutritional responsiveness affects novel neutrophil parameters and reduces in-hospital mortality and costs in elective cancer oesophagectomy - a single centre, prospective, observational study.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2024Observational
- The use of the ERAS protocol in malnourished and properly nourished patients undergoing elective surgery: a questionnaire study.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionApproximately 44% of all patients hospitalised for an elective surgical procedure have a malnutrition risk. In this study, we assessed the prevalence of malnutrition risk at a pre-anaesthetic clinic and the feasibility of introducing nutritional support. The primary objective of this study was to assess malnutrition risk prevalence in patients referred to a pre-anaesthetic clinic. MATERIAL AND
methodsThis was a prospective observational study. The study was divided into two phases: one in 2020 and the other in 2023. Consecutive patients scheduled for an elective surgical procedure at a pre-anaesthetic clinic were asked to participate in the study by filling out the questionnaire. We divided the patients into two groups based on the GLIM criteria.
resultsWe included a total of 467 patients, including 214 from 2020 and 253 from 2023. In the total sample, 93 (19.9%) patients met the GLIM criteria for malnutrition risk, and 37 (7.9 %) fulfilled the ESPEN criteria for preoperative nutritional support. Out of 93 patients at malnutrition risk, 41 (44%) had BMI > 25 kg m -2 . The number of patients with indications for preoperative nutritional support in all departments remained similar across both time points. However, the number of patients receiving preoperative ONS almost doubled over the study period (36.8% in 2020 vs. 72.2% in 2023).
conclusionsMalnutrition risk was consistently high among our elective surgery patients. Not all patients with indications for preoperative nutritional support received it. As such, pre-anaesthetic clinics might be one of the major links in the nutritional programme chains of hospitals.
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