Validation of the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) in cancer

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 343-348

  Boléo Tomé, Carolina ^a   Monteiro Grillo, Isabel ^a,b   Camilo, Maria ^a   Ravasco, Paula ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool; Nutrition screening; Nutritional risk; Oncology; Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL; NEOPLASM; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PATIENT GENERATED SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PORTUGAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863835453     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000711451100571X     Document Type: Article

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