Ability of existing Malnutrition Screening Tools to identify risk of starvation, sarcopenia and cachexia: A systematic review

e-SPEN Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Healy, Erin ^a   Yaxley, Alison ^a   Isenring, Elisabeth ^b,c   Bannerman, Elaine ^d   Miller, Michelle ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cachexia; Sarcopenia; Screening tools; Starvation; Systematic review; Unintentional weight loss

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION SCREENING TOOLS; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SARCOPENIA; SCREENING TEST; STARVATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84901505579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22128263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnme.2014.04.005     Document Type: Review

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