Rev Salud Publica (Bogota)
May 2016
Objective: To establish characteristics and the trend of mortality from thyroid cancer in Colombia.
Material And Methods: This is a study of mortality from thyroid cancer in Colombia using official national mortality databases (1998-2010). Year of death, sex, age and department of residence were analyzed.
Background: There is a high variability in clinical practice regarding nutritional care which could affect nutritional status of oncological patients. This variability can be diminished following evidence based recommendations from clinical practice guidelines (CPG) with good methodological quality in its development.
Objective: To review and evaluate the quality of published guidelines in nutrition in hospitalized oncological adult patients.