Validation of population-specific Mini-Nutritional Assessment with its long-term mortality-predicting ability: Results of a population-based longitudinal 4-year study in Taiwan

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-99

  Tsai, Alan C ^a   Yang, Shu Fang ^a   Wang, Jiun Yi ^a  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Longitudinal studies; Mortality; Nutritional assessment; Validation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE SATISFACTION; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TAIWAN; VALIDATION PROCESS; ARM; DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; LEG; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BODY MASS INDEX; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LEG; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 77954665979     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510000188     Document Type: Article

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