Background And Aims: Nutritional supplements are widely administered in hospitals and can benefit clinical outcome. The aim here was to determine the effect of routine post-operative nutritional supplementation on the nutritional status and clinical outcome of adult orthopaedic patients.
Methods: A prospective controlled study was conducted on two adult orthopaedic wards.
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol
March 2002
Objectives: To determine the number of patients referred for enteroscopy in a district general hospital (DGH), the indication, enteroscopic +/- histological diagnosis, and to compare findings with other series from tertiary referral centres or outside the UK.
Design: Retrospective case series over a 2-year period.
Results: In the 2-year period, 52 patients were referred for enteroscopy.
Background: Studies have shown clinical benefits of nutritional supplementation in orthopaedic and elderly patients in both under and well nourished groups. However, patient compliance with the supplementation has not been reported.
Aim: To assess level of patient compliance with nutritional supplementation when prescribed postoperatively to unselected orthopaedic patients as part of a large controlled trial researching the clinical benefits of non-targeted nutritional supplementation.