Abstract:

The incidence of nutritional risk in hospitalized patients with pulmonary tuberculosis ranges from 38.5% to 86.1%. If the nutritional risk is not corrected in time, it is easy to develop nutrition-related diseases, such as malnutrition, drug-induced liver injury, immune dysfunction, lung infections, etc., which increases the risk of failure in the anti-tuberculosis treatment. Nutrition management is one of the most important auxiliary methods in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, however, there are still some related problems, such as lack of nutrition knowledge among nursing staff, unclear nutrition assessment standards and imperfect management procedures. Therefore, it is of great significance to standardize nutrition care for tuberculosis. The Nursing Branch of Chinese Antituberculosis Association and Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University jointly organized experts to formulate the Expert consensus on nursing practice for nutritional management of pulmonary tuberculosis patients based on clinical practice, literature analysis, combined with the work experience of experts in the field of tuberculosis, aiming at providing guidance for clinical nurses to implement nutrition management, and standardizing the nutrition management nursing practice of hospitalized adult tuberculosis patients in China.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary, Nutrition assessment, Nutritional support, Nursing care, Consensus development conferences as topic