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| Does the Mini Nutritional Assessment predict hospitalization outcomes in older people? | | Author(s) | Marie-Claire Van Nes, François R Herrmann, Gabriel Gold |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 30, no 3, May 2001 |
| Pages | pp 221-226 |
| Keywords | Malnutrition ; Evaluation ; In-patients ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Death ; Switzerland. |
| Annotation | The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is a validated clinical tool for assessing older people's nutritional status. This article reports on a sample of admissions to the Geneva Hospital of Geriatric Medicine between February 1996 and January 1998, who were studied in relation to length of stay and in-hospital mortality for all patients, and discharge to a nursing home for those living at home before admission. A low MNA score, indicative of malnutrition, is common in hospitalised older patients, and is associated with increased in-hospital mortality, a higher rate of discharge to nursing homes, or a longer length of stay in hospital. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010702504 A |
| Classmark | CSM: 4C: LF7: LD:QKJ: LHB:QKH: CW: 76C |
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