Validity of Pediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score to detect pediatric hospitalized malnutrition
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Prevalence of malnutrition in pediatric hospital patients.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Hospital protein-energy malnutrition and its adverse consequences were already described back in 1980. The purpose of this review is to describe the current prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized children and to describe current risk groups. RECENT FINDINGS Different definitions have been used to describe malnutrition. According to WHO criteria, the SD score with a cutof...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bali Medical Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2302-2914,2089-1180
DOI: 10.15562/bmj.v8i1.1299