Norwegian version of the Nutritional Form for the Elderly: sufficient psychometric properties for performing institutional screening of elderly patients

Nutrition Research

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 761-767

  Söderhamn, Ulrika ^a,c   Flateland, Sylvi ^a,c   Jessen, Liss ^b   Söderhamn, Olle ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

^c Centre for Caring Research Southern Norway   (Norway)

Author keywords

Elderly; Instrument testing; NUFFE NO; Nutritional screening instrument; Patients

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD; NORWAY; NUTRITIONAL FORM FOR THE ELDERLY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70449671098     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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