Patients and methods: INST and the initial screening of the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002) were used for retrospective analysis of the nutritional risk of 640 patients included in a clinical trial published back in 2004. The aim of this pilot study was to analyze the practicability of the Innsbruck Nutrition Screening Tool (INST) in detecting patients at risk for malnutrition. Nevertheless, it still remains unclear which screening tool is best for the use in daily clinical practice. As a consequence the Council of Europe passed a resolution concerning malnutrition in european hospitals in 2003 and the European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) published guidelines on screening of nutritional status. Published by BMJ.According to the results of european studies the prevalence of malnutrition among hospitalized patients ranges between 20 and 60%. Nutrition & dietetics nutritional support rehabilitation medicine. Furthermore, results will be presented in relevant research and clinical fora to facilitate transfer of results to clinical practice in benefit of patients. Results will be reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement and published in an international peer-reviewed journal. Two reviewers will independently conduct screening of search results, study selection, data extraction and quality assessment. No restriction on publication date will be applied, and full-text articles in English, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are eligible for inclusion. Studies will be included if they validate a nutrition screening or assessment tool in adult patients with cancer or survivors of cancer. and PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews will be searched for additional relevant studies. Primary searches were carried out in August 2018 with updated searches performed in November 2019. In this systematic review, the electronic databases PubMed, CINAHL Complete and Embase were searched systematically using comprehensive search strategies. The aim is to systematically review and identify nutrition screening and assessment tools appropriate for use in patients with cancer and survivors of cancer in hospital or community-based healthcare settings. The first step towards initiating any nutritional intervention is to identify the individual in need hereof, but evidence is limited on the applicability of different nutrition screening and assessment tools in the post-treatment rehabilitation services.

They are also frequent after completion of treatment, and nutritional interventions in community-based post-treatment rehabilitation services are important. Nutritional challenges are common consequences of cancer, and they do not only occur in the hospital setting.

Prideaux nutritional assessment tool