To prospectively investigate the changes in nutritional status of patients with malignant tumors during hospitalization by using nutritional risk screening (NRS2002), and to analyze the correlation ...between the nutritional status and clinical outcomes .
This was a prospective and parallel research done by multi-center collaboration from 34 hospitals in China from June to September 2014.Hospitalized patients with malignant tumors inthese departments (Department of Gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, oncology, general surgery, thoracic surgery and geriatrics)were investigated. Only the patients with age≥ 18 years and hospitalization time between 7-30 days were included. During hospitalization, the physical indexes of human bodywere measured, and the NRS 2002 scores, and monitored the nutritional support at the time points of admission and 24 hours before discharge were recorded.And whether there was a nutritional risk in hospitalized patients and its association with clinical outcomes were investigated.
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Miyata is working closely with researchers from the Hokkaido University of Science and the University of Tsukuba, Japan, including Professors Yuko Hayashi, Kikue Hidaka and Kaoru Fukura, as well as ...Associate Professor Junko Ouchi. The techniques outlined by Miyata and her team are classified
into three broad concepts. These are, maintaining the physical environment, unravelling the contracted body and reacquisition of living behaviour. Within each concept the faculty members, all of whom are nurses, perform research and teach the technique involved. They have become experts in
techniques which may seem simple, such as sitting and implementing a movement programme. 'However, sitting in a patient with severe disuse syndrome poses risks of fractures, rupture of fractures, changes in circulatory dynamics and therefore expert skills are necessary,' she points out. Another
revelation coming out of this work is the value of a greater emphasis on nutrition. 'It is important to prevent the creation of bodies that can't sit,' says Miyata. 'Therefore, we decided to conduct research to clarify muscle and nutritional status of patients with disuse syndrome.' The idea
being that good nutrition during the time in which one is confined to limited movement would prevent a lot of muscle deterioration, and then when the time comes to begin movement again, the necessary energy and strength would still be available.
