Population-specific Mini Nutritional Assessment can improve mortality-risk-predicting ability in institutionalised older Taiwanese

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2493-2499

  Tsai, Alan C ^a,b   Ku, Pei Yu ^c   Tsai, Jeng Dau ^d  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MOI   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Malnutrition; Mini Nutritional Assessment; Nutrition; Risk assessment; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN;

AGED; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955958376     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03299.x     Document Type: Article

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