Prevalence of patients at nutritional risk in Danish hospitals

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1009-1015

  Rasmussen, Henrik Højgaard ^a   Kondrup, Jens ^b   Staun, Michael ^b   Ladefoged, Karin ^c   Kristensen, Hanne ^a   Wengler, Anne ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Food; Hospital; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Nutritional risk screening; Patients; Prevalence; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL WARD; TREATMENT PLANNING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 4544372166     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Edington J. Boorman J. Durrant E.R. et al. Prevalence of malnutrition on admission to four hospitals in England. The malnutrition prevalence group Clin Nutr 19 3 2000 191-195
2. McWhirter J.P. Pennington C.R. Incidence and recognition of malnutrition in hospital BMJ 308 1994 945-948
3. Stratton R.J. Green C.J. Elia M. Disease-related malnutrition: an evidence-based approach to treatment 2003 CABI Publishing Wallingford
4. Rasmussen H.H. Kondrup J. Ladefoged K. Staun M. Clinical nutrition in Danish hospitals: a questionnaire-based investigation among doctors and nurses Clin Nutr 18 1999 153-158
5. Kondrup J. Rasmussen H.H. Hamberg O. Stanga Z. and an ad hoc ESPEN working group. Nutritional risk screening (NRS 2002): a new method based on an analysis of controlled trials. Clin Nutr 2003; 22: 321-36.
6. Kondrup J. Allison S.P. Elia M. Vellas B. Plauth M. ESPEN Guidelines for nutrition screening 2002 Clin Nutr 22 2003 415-421
7. Johansen N. Kondrup J. Plum L.M. et al. Effect of nutritional support on clinical outcome in patients at nutritional risk Clin Nutr 22 Suppl. 1 2003 S85-S86
8. Kondrup J. Johansen N. Plum L.M. et al. Incidence of nutritional risk and causes of inadequate nutritional care in hospitals Clin Nutr 21 2002 461-468
9. Kondrup J. Can food intake in hospitals be improved? Clin Nutr 20 Suppl. 1 2001 153-160
10. Anonymous. Guidelines for doctors, nurses and clinical dietitians: screening and treatment of patients at nutritional risk. Copenhagen: Danish Board of Health, 2003.