Do doctors know how much nutrition patients need—a survey from Germany?
| Autor: | Dorothee Volkert, C. Spamer, R. Lenzen-Großimlinghaus, H. P. Willschrei, Christine Smoliner, Rainer Wirth, R. Schäfer, F S Schreiber, C Marburger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Nutritional Status Medicine (miscellaneous) Energy requirement Enteral Nutrition Germany Physicians medicine Humans Lack of knowledge Estimation Health Services Needs and Demand Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Data Collection Malnutrition Nutritional Requirements Clinical routine medicine.disease Nutrition Assessment Clinical Competence Medical emergency business Know-how |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 68:840-843 |
| ISSN: | 1476-5640 0954-3007 |
| Popis: | For the diagnosis, prevention and therapy of malnutrition, it is important to estimate the energy and fluid requirements of an individual patient. To our knowledge, it is unknown how accurately medical doctors can estimate the energy and fluid requirements of patients in a clinical routine situation. Hence, we conducted the following survey. A written face-to-face survey about the energy and fluid requirements of and tube feeding and fluid recommendations for a typical patient was performed with 179 medical doctors. An estimation error of >15% was defined as relevant. The results revealed substantial variations in estimating the energy and fluid needs of the patient. A total of 25% of the participants underestimated the energy requirements, and 47% of the participants underestimated the fluid requirements. In addition, 68% of the participants recommended a daily dose of tube feeding that was |
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