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Claude Pichard

Claude Pichard

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Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
44319
World Ranking
8809
National Ranking
4538

Overview

Claude Pichard is affiliated with Geneva College in the United States and has an extensive publication record focused primarily on medicine and nursing. Their research spans several subfields, including physiology, nutrition and dietetics, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, critical care and intensive care medicine, and surgery.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as nutrition and health in aging, clinical nutrition and gastroenterology, body composition measurement techniques, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, electrolyte and hormonal disorders, diet and metabolism studies, and the quality of life of childhood cancer survivors.

Claude Pichard has contributed to multiple research papers, including recent publications such as:

  • ESPEN practical and partially revised guideline: Clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit (2023, Clinical Nutrition)
  • ESPEN guideline on hospital nutrition (2021, Clinical Nutrition)
  • Nutrition of the COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit (ICU): a practical guidance (2020, Critical Care)
  • The centenary of the Harris-Benedict equations: How to assess energy requirements best? Recommendations from the ESPEN expert group (2020, Clinical Nutrition)
  • Effect of Early vs Late Supplemental Parenteral Nutrition in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery (2022, JAMA Surgery)

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of their scientific contributions. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Gustavo D. Pimentel
  • Alessandro Laviano
  • Pierre Singer
  • Mette M. Berger
  • Thaís C. Borges

Their research has been published predominantly in journals such as Clinical Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, Critical Care, Experimental Gerontology, and Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care. Clinical Nutrition stands out as the most frequent publication venue.

Best Publications

  • Bioelectrical impedance analysis--part I: review of principles and methods.

    Ursula G. Kyle;Ingvar Bosaeus;Antonio D. De Lorenzo;Paul Deurenberg

  • Bioelectrical impedance analysis-part II: utilization in clinical practice.

    Ursula G. Kyle;Ingvar Bosaeus;Antonio D. De Lorenzo;Paul Deurenberg

  • ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit

    Pierre Singer;Annika Reintam Blaser;Mette Berger;Waleed Alhazzani

  • ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: intensive care.

    Pierre Singer;Mette M. Berger;Greet Van den Berghe;Gianni Biolo

  • Prognostic impact of disease-related malnutrition.

    Kristina Norman;Claude Pichard;Herbert Lochs;Matthias Pirlich

  • Fat-free mass index and fat mass index percentiles in Caucasians aged 18-98 y.

    Y Schutz;U U G Kyle;C Pichard

  • Optimisation of energy provision with supplemental parenteral nutrition in critically ill patients: a randomised controlled clinical trial

    Claudia Paula Heidegger;Mette M Berger;Séverine Graf;Walter Zingg

  • Single prediction equation for bioelectrical impedance analysis in adults aged 20–94 years

    Ursula G Kyle;Laurence Genton;Laurie Karsegard;Daniel O Slosman

  • Introductory to the ESPEN Guidelines on Enteral Nutrition: Terminology, Definitions and General Topics

    H. Lochs;S.P. Allison;R. Meier;M. Pirlich

  • Decreased food intake is a risk factor for mortality in hospitalised patients: the NutritionDay survey 2006.

    M. Hiesmayr;K. Schindler;E. Pernicka;C. Schuh

  • Age-related differences in fat-free mass, skeletal muscle, body cell mass and fat mass between 18 and 94 years.

    U G Kyle;L Genton;D Hans;L Karsegard

  • Fat-free and fat mass percentiles in 5225 healthy subjects aged 15 to 98 years.

    Ursula G Kyle;Laurence Genton;Daniel O Slosman;Claude Pichard

  • Body composition interpretation. Contributions of the fat-free mass index and the body fat mass index.

    Ursula G Kyle;Yves Schutz;Yves M Dupertuis;Claude Pichard

  • Nutritional assessment: lean body mass depletion at hospital admission is associated with an increased length of stay

    Claude Pichard;Ursula G Kyle;Alfredo Morabia;Arnaud Perrier

  • Comparison of tools for nutritional assessment and screening at hospital admission: a population study.

    Ursula G. Kyle;Michel P. Kossovsky;Veronique L. Karsegard;Claude Pichard

  • Nutritional intervention and quality of life in adult oncology patients.

    Mónica María Marín Caro;Alessandro Laviano;Claude Pichard

  • Metabolic and nutritional support of critically ill patients: consensus and controversies

    Jean Charles Preiser;Arthur R. H. van Zanten;Mette M. Berger;Gianni Biolo

  • Sedentarism affects body fat mass index and fat-free mass index in adults aged 18 to 98 years.

    Ursula G Kyle;Alfredo Morabia;Yves Schutz;Claude Pichard

  • How nutritional risk is assessed and managed in European hospitals: A survey of 21,007 patients findings from the 2007-2008 cross-sectional nutritionDay survey

    Karin Schindler;Elisabeth Pernicka;Alessandro Laviano;Pat Howard

  • n-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids and colon cancer prevention

    Catherine E Roynette;Philip C Calder;Yves Marc Dupertuis;Claude Pichard

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Hans
Didier Hans University of Lausanne
Olle Ljungqvist
Olle Ljungqvist Örebro University
Yves Schutz
Yves Schutz University of Fribourg
Vickie E. Baracos
Vickie E. Baracos University of Alberta
Jean Louis Vincent
Jean Louis Vincent Université Libre de Bruxelles
Alfredo Morabia
Alfredo Morabia Queens College, CUNY
Marinos Elia
Marinos Elia University of Southampton
Philip C. Calder
Philip C. Calder University of Southampton
François Herrmann
François Herrmann University of Geneva
Pierre-Yves Dietrich
Pierre-Yves Dietrich University of Geneva

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