Capturing the Data: Nutrition Risk Screening of Adults in Hospital

This study aims to explore limitations with the Malnutrition Screening Tool in identifyingmalnutrition risk, in a cohort of 3,033 adult Australian medical and surgical hospital inpatients. Seventy-two percent of patients were screened; illness and medical care limited access to others. Malnutrition...

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Autores principales: Frew, Elizabeth, Cant, Robyn, Sequeira, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22254032
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu2040438
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description This study aims to explore limitations with the Malnutrition Screening Tool in identifyingmalnutrition risk, in a cohort of 3,033 adult Australian medical and surgical hospital inpatients. Seventy-two percent of patients were screened; illness and medical care limited access to others. Malnutrition risk (16.5%; n = 501) was found in all age groups with a trend to higher risk in medical wards; 10% (n = 300) of patients with communication barriers were excluded. Systematic screening increased dietitians’ referrals by 39%. Further research is required to enable screening of all patients, including those with communication issues with an easy to use valid tool.
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spelling pubmed-32576542012-01-17 Capturing the Data: Nutrition Risk Screening of Adults in Hospital Frew, Elizabeth Cant, Robyn Sequeira, Jennifer Nutrients Article This study aims to explore limitations with the Malnutrition Screening Tool in identifyingmalnutrition risk, in a cohort of 3,033 adult Australian medical and surgical hospital inpatients. Seventy-two percent of patients were screened; illness and medical care limited access to others. Malnutrition risk (16.5%; n = 501) was found in all age groups with a trend to higher risk in medical wards; 10% (n = 300) of patients with communication barriers were excluded. Systematic screening increased dietitians’ referrals by 39%. Further research is required to enable screening of all patients, including those with communication issues with an easy to use valid tool. Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3257654/ /pubmed/22254032 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu2040438 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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