Malnutrition is an important predictor of long-term survival in older patients undergoing the Whipple procedure for benign pancreatic diseases
The American College of Surgeons NSQIP and American Geriatric Society Best Practice Guidelines criteria for preoperative severe nutritional risk is a useful tool that allows surgeons to better select…
December 10, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, nsqip, practice, practice-guidelines, seniors / aging, severe-nutritional, society, society-best, surgeons, useful-tool
Washing raw chicken increases risk of food poisoning
The UK’s Food Standards Agency is urging people to stop washing raw chicken as the practice can spread campylobacter bacteria, the most common source of food poisoning in the UK.
June 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: common-source, food-poisoning, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, practice, raw-chicken, standards, standards-agency, the-practice, urging-people
