The next ESPEN Hands-on Course on “Nutritional screening & assessment” will be held in November (9th-10th, November 2017) in Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Do not miss the opportunity to get all the latest on the field of screening and assessment. The number of participants is limited. Please send your application to Dr. Marian… lees meer

To get an insight into  patients’ nutritional status we have developed a series of quick and easy-to-use screening tools: SNAQ:  for hospitalized patients SNAQRC: for the elderly in care homes or residential care SNAQ65+: for patients in the community who are aged 65 and over (SNAQ = Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire) The SNAQ screening tools… lees meer

Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Netherlands Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), we would like to invite you to the 39th ESPEN Congress 2017, which will be held for the 3rd time in The Netherlands. Visit our site at ESPEN.

In The Netherlands, screening on undernutrition at admission is common practice in hospitals, using the Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire (SNAQ) or the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST). Using the screening data of 13 hospitals of 2007-2014 two questions were answered: 1.     What is the percentage of  patients with screening score “undernutrition” in the general hospital… lees meer

In The Netherlands, screening on undernutrition at admission is common practice in hospitals, using the Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire (SNAQ) or the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST). Using the screening data of 13 hospitals of 2007-2014 two questions were answered: 1.     What is the percentage of  patients with screening score “undernutrition” in the general hospital… lees meer