The use of hand grip strength as a predictor of nutrition status in hospital patients

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 106-114

  Flood, Anna ^a   Chung, Alexis ^a   Parker, Hayley ^b   Kearns, Victoria ^b   O'Sullivan, Therese A ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Dietetics Department   (Australia)

Author keywords

(HGS); (PAL); (PG SGA); Hand grip strength; Hospital; Malnutrition; Nutrition status; PG SGA

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT GENERATED SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

(HGS); (PAL); (PG-SGA); HAND GRIP STRENGTH; HOSPITAL; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION STATUS; PATIENT GENERATED SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; PG-SGA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84892530010     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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