Nutritional screening tools and anthropometric measures associate with hospital discharge outcomes in older people

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages E1-E6

  Dent, Elsa ^a   Chapman, Ian ^a,b   Piantadosi, Cynthia ^a   Visvanathan, Renuka ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Geriatric assessment methods; Hospitalisation; Nutritional assessment

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84923834679     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajag.12130     Document Type: Article

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