Standard Nutritional Assessment Tools Are Unable to Predict Loss of Muscle Mass in Patients Due to Undergo Pancreatico-Duodenectomy: Highlighting the Need for Detailed Nutritional Assessment.
Mary E PhillipsM Denise RobertsonKate Bennett-EastleyLily RoweAdam Enver FramptonKathryn H HartPublished in: Nutrients (2024)
Nutritional assessment tools give widely variable results. Further research is needed to identify patients at significant nutritional risk prior to PD. In the meantime, those with malnutrition (according to the GLIM criteria), obesity or low HGS should be referred to prehabilitation.