Nutritional status of patients with advanced cancer: The value of using the subjective global assessment of nutritional status as a screening tool

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-42

  Thoresen, Lene ^a   Fjeldstad, Irene ^a   Krogstad, Knut ^a   Kaasa, Stein ^a,b   Falkmer, Ursula G ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Advanced neoplastic disease; Anorexia; Food intake; Malnutrition; Nutritional status; Subjective global assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SATIETY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NORWAY; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036207886     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216302pm486oa     Document Type: Article

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