Screening, characterising and assessing malnutrition in the hospital setting: A large-scale point prevalence survey.

Aim: To assess the prevalence of undernutrition, overnutrition, and simultaneous malnutrition in a hospital setting, as well as undernutrition risk and dietetic intervention rates.

Methods: A point prevalence survey was conducted annually from 2016 to 2024 (excluding 2020-2021 due to Coronavirus Disease 2019) across three metropolitan health service hospital sites. Eligible multiday inpatients underwent bedside assessments and medical record reviews to determine Body Mass Index, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool scores, and undernutrition status based on either the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, or the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition.

Assessing the impact of an intensive dietitian-led telehealth intervention focusing on nutritional adequacy, symptom control and optional supplemental jejunal feeding, on quality of life in patients with pancreatic cancer: a randomised controlled trial protocol.

Background: Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related death in Australia, with a persistently poor 5-year survival rate of around 13%. Symptoms arising from the disease and chemotherapy such as epigastric pain, anorexia, bloating and fat-malabsorptive diarrhoea cause poor oral intake and weight loss, and reduce an individual's quality of life and ability to tolerate anti-cancer treatment. The primary aim of this study is to determine if an early, intensive telehealth nutrition intervention can improve quality of life compared to usual care for people undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.

Assessing the impact of insurance type on COVID-19 mortality in black and white patients in the largest healthcare system in the state of georgia.

Importance: The increased COVID-19 mortality for Black individuals over White individuals may be explained by the known racial disparities in access to insurance.

Objective: To determine whether racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality still exist when Blacks and Whites are equally insured.

Design: Routinely collected data on race, mortality, type of insurance, known risk factors, and lab results from the EPIC Patient Management System were analyzed using a multivariable logistic regression model.

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago.

The time of arrival of people in Australia is an unresolved question. It is relevant to debates about when modern humans first dispersed out of Africa and when their descendants incorporated genetic material from Neanderthals, Denisovans and possibly other hominins. Humans have also been implicated in the extinction of Australia's megafauna.