Step 3-Set Goals
Set and document realistic and measurable goals, outline aims to achieve these goals and identify the end point of treatment:
- Minimise losses, e.g. minimise weight loss during catabolism such as cancer
- Maintain nutritional status, e.g. prevent further weight loss, maintain BMI ≥20kg/m2
- Improve nutritional status, e.g. 0.5kg weight gain per week to achieve a target weight or BMI, evidence of wound healing
- Improve quality of life for those in the last few weeks of life