Protocol for a prospective cohort study on the feasibility of application of nutritional ultrasound in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with nutritional risk at hospital discharge: study on body composition and function (DRECO).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Nutritional ultrasound (US) is an emerging technique in clinical nutrition for the morphological and structural study of muscle mass. Currently, all definitions of malnutrition include the measurement of muscle mass; however, there is no single way to assess it. It is necessary to develop new techniques to identify muscle involvement in malnutrition that are valid, standardised, reliable, accurate and profitable.

Objective

To value the new muscle US techniques aimed to measure muscle and functional status, to make a more accurate diagnosis and a better prediction of complications and morbidity and mortality in patients at nutritional risk.

Primary outcome

to assess the feasibility of US or muscle US techniques in both nutritional diagnosis and follow-up i

SUBMITTER: Garcia Almeida JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10729227 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature