Do the malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) and Birmingham nutrition risk (BNR) score predict mortality in older hospitalised patients?

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Henderson, Sarah ^a   Moore, Nicola ^a   Lee, Emma ^a   Witham, Miles D ^b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 54449088355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-8-26     Document Type: Article

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