| Sumario: | The goal of nutrition intervention is to maintain or improve nutritional status. Patients receiving chemotherapy face challenges in achieving this goal due to the effects of the tumour, side effects of the treatment or a combination of both. This paper describes observations made of the effect of intensive dietetic intervention on the nutritional status of hospitalised patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy using the scored Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA). There was a significant linear trend in change in PG-SGA score for those patients who improved, maintained or declined in nutritional status according to SGA (F([1,15]) = 19.2, P = 0.001). There was no significant linear trend between the time spent by the dietitian in direct patient care and change in nutritional status according to SGA (F([1,15]) = 3.62, P = 0.08), however the trend was in the anticipated direction.
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