Assessment of perioperative nutrition practices and attitudes—a national survey of colorectal and GI surgical oncology programs

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Background Implementation of evidence-based peri-operative nutrition in the U.S. is poorly described and hypothesized to be suboptimal. This study broadly describes practices and attitudes regarding nutrition screening/intervention in U.S. gastrointestinal and oncologic surgeons. Methods Nationwide nutritional practice survey of GI/Oncologic surgical faculty. Results Program response rates were 57% and 81% for colorectal and oncology fellowships, respectively. Only 38% had formal nutritional screening processes in place. Average estimated percent of patients malnourished, receiving nutritional screening, and receiving nutritional supplementation preoperatively were 28%, 43%, and 21%, respectively. University-affiliation (p = 0.0371) and a formal screening process (p = 0.0312) pbkp_redicted higher preoperative nutritional screening rates. Controversy existed regarding routine use of perioperative immunonutrition …

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2017

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