The ability of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index to assess the nutritional status and predict the outcome of home-care resident elderly: A comparison with the Mini Nutritional Assessment

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 563-570

  Cereda, Emanuele ^a,b   Pusani, Chiara ^b   Limonta, Daniela ^c   Vanotti, Alfredo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ASL Como   (Italy)

^c ONLUS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI); Institutionalised elderly; Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA); Outcome; Predictive value; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; GERIATRIC NUTRITIONAL RISK INDEX; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME FOR THE AGED; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70149086228     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114509222677     Document Type: Article

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