A Trial of Nutritional Evaluation by Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) at a Welfare Facility for the Elderly

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA): Research and Practice in the Elderly

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The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) for grading the nutritional state of elderly patients: presentation of the MNA, history and validation.

MNA® Mini Nutritional Assessment as a nutritional screening tool for hospitalized older adults; rationales and feasibility.

The high prevalence of malnutrition in the growing population of older adults makes malnutrition screening critical, especially in hospitalized elderly patients. The aim of our study was to evaluate the use of the MNA® Mini Nutritional Assessment in hospitalized older adults for rapid evaluation of nutritional risk. A prospective cohort study was made of 106 patients 65 years old or older admit...

Assessing the nutritional status of elderly Chinese lung cancer patients using the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA®) tool

PURPOSE This study assessed the nutritional status of elderly Chinese lung cancer inpatients using a revised version of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA(®)) tool. PATIENTS AND METHODS The revised version of the MNA tool was used to assess the nutritional status of 180 elderly Chinese lung cancer inpatients prior to their scheduled surgery between June 2010 and July 2011. Patients' demogra...

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) of Elderly Hospitalized Patients undergoing Urological Surgery

Background: Malnutrition in hospitalized elderly patients is common and often unrecognized. Undernourished elderly tend to have longer periods of illness, longer hospital stay, higher rate of infections, delayed wound healing, reduced appetite and increased mortality rates. Nutrition screening is the first step in identifying individuals at nutritional risk and with malnutrition. ‘Mini Nutritio...