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Kim: Nutritional Screening and Assessment in Hospitalized Patients

Abstract

Nutritional screening and assessment in patients with malnutrition is the critical first step for nutritional care. Although nutritional assessment is a rigorous process that includes obtaining diet and medical history, current clinical status, physical examination, anthropometric data, laboratory data, and often functional and economic information, it is a very effective and worthy practice in terms of reducing various complications, morbidity, mortality and total medical costs. Systematic approaches with appropriate tools for nutritional screening and assessment are needed based on the clinical situations in each institute.

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Table 1.
Instruments for Nutritional Screening and Assessment
Screening tools
 Birmingham Nutrition Risk Score
 Malnutrition Screening Tool
 Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool
 Maastricht Index
 Nutrition Risk Classification
 Nutritional Risk Index
 Nutritional Risk Screening 2002
 Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index
 Prognostic Nutritional Index
 Simple Screening Tool
 Short Nutrition Assessment Questionnaire
Nutrition assessment tools
 Mini Nutritional Assessment
 Subjective Global Assessment
TOOLS
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