Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Cachexia.
David BlumOla Magne VagnildhaugGuro Birgitte SteneMatthew MaddocksJonas SørensenBarry J A LairdCarla M PradoTora Skeidsvoll SolheimJann ArendsJane HopkinsonChristopher A JonesMathias SchlöglPublished in: Journal of palliative medicine (2023)
Cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome that is common in cancer and chronic disease. It is often underdiagnosed and therefore goes untreated or undertreated. Cachexia causes suffering across biopsychosocial domains and affects patients and their loved ones. In this article, a group of clinicians and researchers across cancer care, nutrition, and exercise offers tips about assessment, classification, and management of cachexia, with attention to its stage. The required multimodal management of cachexia mirrors well the interprofessional collaboration that is the mainstay of interdisciplinary palliative care and attention to screening, diagnosis, and management of cachexia is critical to maximize patients' quality of life.
Keyphrases
- palliative care
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- machine learning
- working memory
- patient reported outcomes
- high intensity
- deep learning
- patient safety
- young adults
- chronic pain
- pain management
- quality improvement
- lymph node metastasis
- papillary thyroid
- squamous cell