Do the malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) and Birmingham nutrition risk (BNR) score predict mortality in older hospitalised patients?

BACKGROUND: Undernutrition is common in older hospitalised patients, and routine screening is advocated. It is unclear whether screening tools such as the Birmingham Nutrition Risk (BNR) score and the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) can successfully predict outcome in this patient group...

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Autores principales: Henderson, Sarah, Moore, Nicola, Lee, Emma, Witham, Miles D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18847458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-8-26

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18847458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-8-26

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