Nutritional Support Systems at Cancer Centers: Highlighting the Role of the Dietitian as a Key Manager
Nakada, E.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 40(13): 2485-2488
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 28676601 Document Number: 666099
For real-time nutritional management of in-hospital patients, a system for updated nutritional assessment is required. In our institution, we changed the conventional passive style of our nutrition support team(NST). The goal of the new NST is to provide comprehensive nutritional support based on weekly monitoring of each patient's nutritional status. In July 2013, we introduced a system where the dietitian acts as a key manager of the NSTto select patients who really need nutritional support based on the data of nutritional intake and nutritional assessment by nurses.