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Liz Isenring

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"Carer-Centred Care": Family Carer Experiences, Roles And Support Needs: Implications For Dietitians In Rehabilitation, Skye Marshall, Dianne Reidlinger, Adrienne Young, Elizabeth Isenring May 2017

"Carer-Centred Care": Family Carer Experiences, Roles And Support Needs: Implications For Dietitians In Rehabilitation, Skye Marshall, Dianne Reidlinger, Adrienne Young, Elizabeth Isenring

Liz Isenring

Title on the Conference Program:

"Family carer experiences, roles and support needs: Implications for dietitians in rehabilitation"

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Do Making Habits Or Breaking Habits Influence Weight Loss And Weight Loss Maintenence? A Randomised Controlled Trial, Gina Cleo, Rae Thomas, Liz Isenring, Paul P. Glasziou May 2017

Do Making Habits Or Breaking Habits Influence Weight Loss And Weight Loss Maintenence? A Randomised Controlled Trial, Gina Cleo, Rae Thomas, Liz Isenring, Paul P. Glasziou

Liz Isenring

- After losing it, keeping weight off is difficult.

- Around 40% of weight loss is regained over the first year following treatment, and much of the rest over the next three years

- Habitual behaviour and automaticity have been suggested as the most plausible explanation for this overwhelming lack of long-term weight loss success

‘Most of the time what we do is what we do most of the time, sometimes we do something different’

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Optimising Nutrition In Residential Aged Care: A Narrative Review, Ekta Agarwal, Skye Marshall, Michelle Miller, Elizabeth Isenring Aug 2016

Optimising Nutrition In Residential Aged Care: A Narrative Review, Ekta Agarwal, Skye Marshall, Michelle Miller, Elizabeth Isenring

Liz Isenring

In developed countries the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition increases with age and multimorbidities increase nutritional risk in aged care residents in particular. This paper presents a narrative review of the current literature on the identification, prevalence, associated risk factors, consequences, and management of malnutrition in the residential aged care (RAC) setting. We performed searches of English-language publications on Medline, PubMed, Ovid and the Cochrane Library from January 1 1990 to November 25 2015. We found that, on average, half of all residents in aged care are malnourished as a result of factors affecting appetite, dietary intake and nutrient absorption. Malnutrition …

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The Malnutrition Screening Tool In Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Comparison Of Validity When Completed By Health Professionals With And Without Malnutrition Screening Training Has Implications For Practice, Skye Marshall, Adrienne Young, Elizabeth Isenring May 2015

The Malnutrition Screening Tool In Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Comparison Of Validity When Completed By Health Professionals With And Without Malnutrition Screening Training Has Implications For Practice, Skye Marshall, Adrienne Young, Elizabeth Isenring

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BACKGROUND:
The validity of the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) in geriatric rehabilitation has been evaluated in a research environment but not in professional practice.

OBJECTIVE:
In older adults admitted to rehabilitation, this study was undertaken to compare the MST scoring agreement (inter-rater reliability) between health professionals with and without malnutrition risk and screening training; to evaluate the concurrent validity of the MST completed by the trained and untrained health professionals compared to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification using different MST score cutoffs; and to determine whether patient characteristics were associated with MST scoring accuracy when …

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Nutrition Care Practices In Hospital Wards: Results From The Nutrition Care Day Survey 2010, Ekta Agarwal, Maree Ferguson, Merrilyn Banks, Marijka J. Batterham, Judith Bauer, Sandra Capra, Elizabeth Isenring Nov 2012

Nutrition Care Practices In Hospital Wards: Results From The Nutrition Care Day Survey 2010, Ekta Agarwal, Maree Ferguson, Merrilyn Banks, Marijka J. Batterham, Judith Bauer, Sandra Capra, Elizabeth Isenring

Liz Isenring

Background & aim

This paper describes nutrition care practices in acute care hospitals across Australia and New Zealand.

Methods

A survey on nutrition care practices in Australian and New Zealand hospitals was completed by Directors of dietetics departments of 56 hospitals that participated in the Australasian Nutrition Care Day Survey 2010.

Results

Overall 370 wards representing various specialities participated in the study. Nutrition risk screening was conducted in 64% (n = 234) of the wards. Seventy nine percent (n = 185) of these wards reported using the Malnutrition Screening Tool, 16% using the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (n = 37), …

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