Malnutrition prevalence according to GLIM and its feasibility in geriatric patients: a prospective cross-sectional study.

Purpose: In 2019, the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) suggested a 2-step diagnostic format for malnutrition including screening and diagnosis. Prospective validation and feasibility studies, using the complete set of the five GLIM criteria, are needed. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of malnutrition, and investigate how the prevalence varied with mode of screening.

District nurses and general practitioners' negotiation of responsibility for nutritional care for patients in palliative phases cared for at home.

Aim: To explore district nurses and general practitioners (GPs) interaction in a case seminar when discussing nutritional care for patients in palliative phases cared for at home and to construct a theoretical model illuminating the professionals' main concern.

Background: Nutritional care for people who are frail and older requires collaboration between nurses and physicians in primary health care. However, both collaboration and knowledge need to be improved, and there is a lack of continuing interprofessional education to meet these needs.

Symptom Burden in Patients With Home Care Who Are at Risk for Malnutrition: A Cross-Sectional Study.

In Sweden, patients in early palliative stages of illness are cared for in primary care and often offered home care. Many are older and at risk for malnutrition, but little is known about their symptom burden and nutritional problems. This cross-sectional study divided older patients in home care into those with and without risk for malnutrition and compared symptom burden in the 2 groups.

Early palliative home care: Evaluation of an interprofessional educational intervention for district nurses and general practitioners about nutritional care.

Background: Teamwork is important in early palliative home care, and interprofessional education is required to achieve teamwork. It is thus crucial to ensure that interprofessional education works well for the members of all participating professions because levels of knowledge and educational needs may vary.

Aim: To evaluate, by profession, the effectiveness of an interprofessional educational intervention for district nurses and general practitioners on three areas of nutritional care for patients in a palliative phase.

Evaluation of ConPrim: A three-part model for continuing education in primary health care.

Background: To overcome the gap between existing knowledge and the application of this knowledge in practice, a three-part continuing educational model for primary health care professionals (ConPrim) was developed. It includes a web-based program, a practical exercise and a case seminar.

Aim: To evaluate professionals' perceptions of the design, pedagogy and adaptation to primary health care of the ConPrim continuing educational model as applied in a subject-specific intervention.

Nutritional assessment and post-procedural complications in older stroke patients after insertion of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy - a retrospective study.

Background: Oropharyngeal dysphagia is one of the major complications of stroke and a risk factor for malnutrition and prolonged in-hospital stay.

Objective: The overall aim was to describe to what extent nutritional assessments (i.e.

Resources and routines for nutritional assessment of patients with severe traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To describe the resources and routines for nutritional management until 6 months after severe traumatic brain injury.

Methods: Data collection was performed by use of questionnaires to staff professionals at three regional neurosurgical intensive and 75 other care units and a retrospective survey of medical and nursing records from 64 patients treated at these units.

Results: Resources in terms of qualified staff members were reportedly good, while nutritional guidelines were adopted in less than half of the units.