Nutritional Assessment and Management of Patients in the Rehabilitation Units

Dear Colleagues,

Many patients face significant physical and psychological disability following discharge after illness. They are often malnourished, a condition associated with poor outcomes, and nutrition remains problematic, particularly in the early phases of patients' recovery. Yet nutrition rehabilitation, the process of restoring or optimizing nutritional status following illness, is seldom prioritized. Malnutrition is associated with worse outcomes in rehabilitation patients; however, appropriate malnutrition assessment and management for this population has not been well investigated.

Accurate identification and management of malnutrition is essential, so that patient outcomes can be improved and resources used efficaciously. This Special Issue provides a platform for researchers to discuss “Nutritional Assessment and Management of Patients in the Rehabilitation Units” with the aim of helping to promote the development of this field. Discussions on diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers of nutritional status of these patients are also accepted. In the present Special Issue, we welcome original articles and narrative and systematic reviews.

Dr. Mariacristina Siotto
Guest Editor

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