Nutrition assessment or nutrition screening-How much information is enough to make a diagnosis of malnutrition in acute care?

Nutrition

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 356-357

  Capra, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; PREALBUMIN; ZINC;

ANTHROPOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION SCREENING TOOL; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33947632404     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2007.02.008     Document Type: Editorial

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