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Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment
Malnutrition is an independent risk factor that negatively influences patients’ clinical outcomes, quality of life, body function, and autonomy. Early identification of patients at risk of malnutrition or who are malnourished is crucial in order to start a timely and adequate nutritional support. Nu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31330781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8071065 |
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author | Reber, Emilie Gomes, Filomena Vasiloglou, Maria F. Schuetz, Philipp Stanga, Zeno |
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description | Malnutrition is an independent risk factor that negatively influences patients’ clinical outcomes, quality of life, body function, and autonomy. Early identification of patients at risk of malnutrition or who are malnourished is crucial in order to start a timely and adequate nutritional support. Nutritional risk screening, a simple and rapid first-line tool to detect patients at risk of malnutrition, should be performed systematically in patients at hospital admission. Patients with nutritional risk should subsequently undergo a more detailed nutritional assessment to identify and quantify specific nutritional problems. Such an assessment includes subjective and objective parameters such as medical history, current and past dietary intake (including energy and protein balance), physical examination and anthropometric measurements, functional and mental assessment, quality of life, medications, and laboratory values. Nutritional care plans should be developed in a multidisciplinary approach, and implemented to maintain and improve patients’ nutritional condition. Standardized nutritional management including systematic risk screening and assessment may also contribute to reduced healthcare costs. Adequate and timely implementation of nutritional support has been linked with favorable outcomes such as a decrease in length of hospital stay, reduced mortality, and reductions in the rate of severe complications, as well as improvements in quality of life and functional status. The aim of this review article is to provide a comprehensive overview of nutritional screening and assessment methods that can contribute to an effective and well-structured nutritional management (process cascade) of hospitalized patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-66792092019-08-19 Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment Reber, Emilie Gomes, Filomena Vasiloglou, Maria F. Schuetz, Philipp Stanga, Zeno J Clin Med Review Malnutrition is an independent risk factor that negatively influences patients’ clinical outcomes, quality of life, body function, and autonomy. Early identification of patients at risk of malnutrition or who are malnourished is crucial in order to start a timely and adequate nutritional support. Nutritional risk screening, a simple and rapid first-line tool to detect patients at risk of malnutrition, should be performed systematically in patients at hospital admission. Patients with nutritional risk should subsequently undergo a more detailed nutritional assessment to identify and quantify specific nutritional problems. Such an assessment includes subjective and objective parameters such as medical history, current and past dietary intake (including energy and protein balance), physical examination and anthropometric measurements, functional and mental assessment, quality of life, medications, and laboratory values. Nutritional care plans should be developed in a multidisciplinary approach, and implemented to maintain and improve patients’ nutritional condition. Standardized nutritional management including systematic risk screening and assessment may also contribute to reduced healthcare costs. Adequate and timely implementation of nutritional support has been linked with favorable outcomes such as a decrease in length of hospital stay, reduced mortality, and reductions in the rate of severe complications, as well as improvements in quality of life and functional status. The aim of this review article is to provide a comprehensive overview of nutritional screening and assessment methods that can contribute to an effective and well-structured nutritional management (process cascade) of hospitalized patients. MDPI 2019-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6679209/ /pubmed/31330781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8071065 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Reber, Emilie Gomes, Filomena Vasiloglou, Maria F. Schuetz, Philipp Stanga, Zeno Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment |
title | Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment |
title_full | Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment |
title_fullStr | Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment |
title_full_unstemmed | Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment |
title_short | Nutritional Risk Screening and Assessment |
title_sort | nutritional risk screening and assessment |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31330781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8071065 |
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