Evaluation of the efficacy of six nutritional screening tools to predict malnutrition in the elderly

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 378-385

  Poulia, Kalliopi Anna ^a,b   Yannakoulia, Mary ^c   Karageorgou, Dimitra ^c   Gamaletsou, Maria ^d   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^c   Sipsas, Nikolaos V ^d   Zampelas, Antonis ^b  

^a LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Elderly; Malnutrition; Nutritional screening tools; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NUTRITIONAL RISK INDEX; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT SCREENING FORM; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL RISK INDEX; NUTRITIONAL RISK SCREENING 2002; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREECE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK;

EID: 84861346865     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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