The use of nutrition support near the end of life for hospitalized patients with advanced cancer at a reference center: Two realities.
Emanuelly Varea Maria WiegertKarla Santos da Costa RosaRhayara Thacilla Ferreira Dos SantosDaiane Almeida Dos SantosRenata de FreitasLivia Costa de OliveiraPublished in: Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (2021)
The use of NS near the end of life was high in the non-palliative and less frequent in palliative care setting. The factors associated with NS differed according to the clinical oncology setting, with one of the factors in palliative care being a better prognosis.