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With the aging population in China, the number of elderly patients with hip fracture is increasing year by year. Malnutrition is common in the elderly patients with hip fracture, which can significantly increase the hospital stay, complication rate and postoperative mortality of patients. The purpose of this article is to review and summarize the latest research progress of different biomarkers and malnutrition screening tools in evaluating the nutritional status of elderly hip fracture patients, so as to provide a reference basis for doctors to correctly evaluate the nutritional status of elderly patients with hip fracture in clinical practice, and scientifically conduct nutritional intervention and treatment, so as to promote the postoperative recovery of patients with hip fracture, reduce complications and mortality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To explore the effect of nutrition clinical nursing pathway for nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients (NPC) undergoing concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Methods: A total of 162 patients with NPC who received the concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy were randomly divided into the control group (n = 81) and experimental group (n = 81). The control group was received routine nutrition management, while the experimental group received nutrition clinical nursing pathway intervention. Physiological condition, social/family status, emotional status and functional status of quality of life between the two groups before and after the intervention were assessed and compared. Results: The scores of functional status and additional attention in the experimental group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P < 0.001), The score of social/family status in the experimental group was also significantly higher than that in the control group (P < 0.001). Conclusion: The nutritional clinical nursing pathway can improve the functional status scores and additional attention scores for head and neck tumors, and also played a certain role in improving social/family status scores. To a certain extent, it can effectively improve the quality of life of patients with NPC undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective To explore the simplest, the most specific and sensitive tools by the application of the tools for screening malnutrition in MNA-SF(mini-nutritional assessment (short-form) ), NRS 2002 (nutritional risk assessment 2002) and GNRI (geriatric nutrition risk index). Methods A total of 314 in-patients over 60 years old from the Department of Geriatrics in our hospital of KunMing from September 2015 to August 2016 were enrolled in this study. We used the continuous sampling method to collect clinical data on patients， including gender, age, diagnosis, height, weight, and BMI (Body mass index), AMC(Arm muscle circle), TSF (Tricheps skinfold thickness), Alb (Serum albumin), PA(Prevalence) and TLC (Lymphocyte count). All patients were assessed with MNA-SF, NRS 2002 and GNRI. 3 tools was studied, and their consistencies, specificity and sensitivity as the "gold standard" defined with any two of the three tools were identified as nutritional risk. Results The nutritional risk rates were 47.3 %，35.4 % and 65.6 % by MNA-SF, NRS 2002 and GNRI. There were good consistencies with MNA-SF,NRS 2002 and "the gold standard" (K>0.75),while GNRI was not ideal with the "gold standard" (0.45 ⩽ K < 0.75). The specificity and sensitivity with MNA-SF were 0.89 and 0.87. The specificity and sensitivity with NRS 2002 were 0.77 and 0.99. The specificity and sensitivity with GNRI were 0.91 and 0.56， respectively. Conclusion There is a higher incidence of the nutritional risk in geriatric in-patients. With its higher specificity, the highest sensitivity and consistency with the "gold standard", MNA-SF is recommended as the preferred tool for nutritional screening for geriatric in-patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]