Perioperative nutrition in the United States is in dire straits and changes need to be made right away, according to leading researchers and clinicians.
A recent national survey of gastrointestinal (GI) and oncologic surgeons found that although surgeons acknowledge that perioperative nutrition can have positive effects on surgical outcomes, there has been “poor implementation of evidence-based nutrition practices in GI and oncologic surgery programs,” the researchers wrote (Ann J Surg 2017:213[6]:1010-1018).
