The link between nutritional status and surgical outcomes
Molla, Haneen
The rise in the number of liver and pancreatic cancer patients in North America and around the world increases the need to better predict adverse outcomes after surgery. Because this patient population also presents with a higher rate of malnutrition which is known to increase the risks of morbidity and mortality, an effective, and validated, pre-operative nutritional assessment method is needed. This pilot study sought to evaluate the feasibi...