Assessing the Need for a Dietitian in Radiation Oncology
| Autor: | Linda Gilliard, Rhonda Tinnen, Tracy K. Gosselin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Health Services Needs and Demand
medicine.medical_specialty Quality management Dietetics business.industry MEDLINE Cancer therapy Nutritional Status Nutritional status Cancer treatment Neoplasms Radiation oncology Workforce Radiation Oncology medicine Humans General Earth and Planetary Sciences Nutritional care Intensive care medicine business General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 12:781-787 |
| ISSN: | 1538-067X 1092-1095 |
| DOI: | 10.1188/08.cjon.781-787 |
| Popis: | Nutritional care is an integral component of quality cancer treatment. Patients undergoing cancer therapy are at risk for developing a variety of side effects that impact their intake, absorption, and nutritional status. The issue becomes compounded in newly diagnosed patients who have preexisting poor nutritional status, comorbid diseases, mechanical obstruction, and metabolic abnormalities. Standards related to the role of dietitians are well defined in the literature and by the Joint Commission. The quality improvement project illustrated in this article clearly demonstrated the need for a dietitian in the radiation oncology clinic by using the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment. |
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