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| Undernutrition risk screening and length of stay of hospitalized elderly | | Author(s) | Cátia Patricia Alho Letra Martins, Joana Rita Correia, Teresa Freítas do Amarel |
| Journal title | Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly, vol 25, no 2, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 3-21 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Malnutrition ; Nutrition ; Screening ; Diagnosis ; Admission [hospitals] ; Cross sectional surveys ; Portugal. |
| Annotation | Widely used nutritional screening and assessment tools, anthropometric parameters and the Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002) were compared regarding their performance with older hospital in-patients and in evaluating their independent association with length of hospital stay. This cross-sectional study was undertaken in the orthopaedic trauma departments of two hospitals in Porto, Portugal. Nutritional screening and assessment was carried out using NRS-2002, Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST), and anthropometry. Patients classified by NRS-2002 as undernourished had an independent higher risk of longer length of stay (> 8 days): odds ratio = 2.25 (95% confidence interval = 1.03 to 4.88). Nutritional "risk" by NRS-2002 is an independent risk factor for a long length of stay for older hospital patients, an important outcome predictor in this population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070413001 A |
| Classmark | CSM: CF: 3V: LK7: LD:QKH: 3KB: 76T |
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