Publications by authors named "Anne Wengler"
Introduction & Aim: To gather information about how adult patients on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) are monitored after discharge from the hospital.
Method: A questionnaire about HPN monitoring practice was circulated to HPN centres in eight European countries through the representative of the ESPEN HAN-working group. Centres were asked about guidelines, home visits and how monitoring and handling of complications were managed.
Background And Aims: Many barriers make implementation of nutritional therapy difficult in hospitals. In this study we investigated whether, a targeted plan made by the staff in different departments could improve nutritional treatment within selected quality goals based on the ESPEN screening guidelines.
Methods: The project was carried out as a continuous quality improvement project.
Background & Aims: Undernutrition is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and is common in patients admitted to hospital. We examined (1) the prevalence of patients at nutritional risk, (2) whether these patients were identified by the staff, and (3) whether a nutritional plan and monitoring was made for patients at nutritional risk.
Methods: A cross-sectional study in 15 randomly selected departments (>200 beds, departments of internal medicine, gastro- and orthopedic surgery) in Danish hospitals.