Defining malnutrition: Mission or mission impossible?

Nutrition

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 432-440

  Meijers, Judith M M ^a   van Bokhorst de van der Schueren, Marian A E ^b   Schols, Jos M G A ^a   Soeters, Peter B ^a   Halfens, Ruud J G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Definition; Elements; Expert panel; Malnutrition; Operationalism

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; CALORIC INTAKE; DELPHI STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SCREENING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 77649182631     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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