Beyond Malnutrition Screening: Appropriate Methods to Guide Nutrition Care for Aged Care Residents

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 376-381

  Isenring, Elisabeth A ^a,b,d   Banks, Merrilyn ^c   Ferguson, Maree ^d   Bauer, Judith D ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e WESLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care; Dietetics; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Nutrition screening

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857722557     PISSN: 22122672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jada.2011.09.038     Document Type: Article

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