A Systematic Review of Malnutrition Screening Tools for the Nursing Home Setting

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 171-184

  Van Bokhorst de van der Schueren, Marian A E ^a,b   Guaitoli, Patrícia Realino ^a   Jansma, Elise P ^c   de Vet, Henrica C W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment; Criterion validity; Long term care; Malnutrition; Nursing home; Predictive validity; Screening; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALNUTRITION; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ASSESSMENT; CRITERION VALIDITY; LONG TERM CARE; MALNUTRITION; NURSING HOME; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 84893773733     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2013.10.006     Document Type: Review

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