The economic impact of disease-related malnutrition at hospital admission

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 778-784

  Amaral, Teresa F ^a   Matos, Luís C ^a   Tavares, Maria M ^a   Subtil, Ana ^a   Martins, Rosário ^a   Nazaré, Margarida ^a   Sousa Pereira, Nuno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Costs; Diagnosis related group; Disease related malnutrition; Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS 2002); Nutritional screening; Reimbursement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PORTUGAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 36048956401     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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