Nutritional risk screening in surgery: Valid, feasible, easy!

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 206-211

  Almeida, Ana Isabel ^a   Correia, Marta ^a   Camilo, Maria ^a   Ravasco, Paula ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Nutritional risk; Nutritional screening; Surgical patients; Undernutrition; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL RISK INDEX; NUTRITIONAL RISK SCREENING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84858752389     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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