Detail

Keywords

Advance Care Planning; Cachexia; Geriatric Assessment; Palliative Care; Parenteral Nutrition; Patient Care

Research group(s)

• Research Group Palliative Care
  Head: Eva Katharina Masel
  Members:
  Feroniki Adamidis
  Matthias Unseld
  Franziska Ecker
  Anna Kitta
  Lea Kum
  Eva Katharina Masel
  Claudia Wenzel
• Palliative and Geriatric Oncology Science Group
  Head: Matthias Unseld
  Research Area: Physiology and Psychology of the Elderly in a Palliative and Geriatric Context.
  Members:
  Connie Sifuentes Caccire
  Omar Keritam
  Markus Kieler
  Matthias Unseld
  Lea Kum
  Elisabeth Zeilinger

Grants

• Untersuchung von Outcome-beeinflussenden Kachexie-assoziierten Zytokinen und laborchemischen Parametern von Patientinnen und Patienten mit fortgeschrittenen Krebserkrankungen unter parenteraler Ernährung (2021)
  Source of Funding: Medical Scientific Fund of the Mayor of the City of Vienna, City of Vienna Fund for Innovative Interdisciplinary Cancer Research
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Kum, L. et al. (2022) ‘Kidney Function Worsening Is Linked to Parenteral-Nutrition-Dependent Survival in Palliative Care Patients’, Nutrients, 14(4), p. 769. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14040769.
2. Kieler, M. et al. (2022) ‘C-reactive protein and white blood cell count are adverse prognostic markers for patients with advanced cancer on parenteral nutrition in a palliative care unit setting: A retrospective cohort study’, Palliative Medicine, 36(3), pp. 540–548. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02692163211073939.
3. Kum, L. et al. (2023) ‘Routine laboratory parameters to support decision on parenteral nutrition in palliative care’, Frontiers in Nutrition, 10. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1173106.
4. Kitta, A. et al. (2023) ‘Statements of Austrian hospices and palliative care units after the implementation of the law on assisted suicide’, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-023-02157-9.
5. Adamidis, F. et al. (2022) ‘The potential of medical comics to teach palliative care skills: a cross-sectional study of 668 medical students’, Annals of Palliative Medicine, 11(11), pp. 3436–3443. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21037/apm-22-637.