Development of a Nutrition Screening Tool for an Outpatient Wound Center.

نویسندگان

  • Judith Fulton
  • Brad Evans
  • Stephannie Miller
  • Kimberly N Blasiole
  • Raymond Leone
  • Nancy Beinlich
  • Anita Meehan
  • Claire Loose
چکیده

OBJECTIVE To construct a quickly and easily administered nutrition screening tool using variables believed to be predictive of malnutrition risk in the wound patient population. DESIGN A prospective pilot study assessed patients on a list of suspected variables, as well as the Scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), chosen as the criterion standard. Variables were analyzed to select the most appropriate items for inclusion on a new nutrition screening tool using preliminary bivariate correlations and χ tests of association. Items significantly associated with malnutrition were dichotomized, and binary logistic regression analyses were performed to arrive at a final model. A sum score was computed, and receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to determine designation of risk. SETTING An outpatient wound center in Northeast Ohio. PARTICIPANTS The pilot study included a convenience sample of 105 outpatients with at least 1 active wound. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Malnutrition as assessed by the Scored PG-SGA. MAIN RESULTS The final nutrition screening tool, the MEAL Scale, is composed of 4 dichotomous elements: multiple wounds (number of wounds), eats less than 3 meals per day, appetite decrease (eats less than usual), and level of activity. These variables predicted 83.7% of the malnutrition cases assessed by the Scored PG-SGA. The receiver operating characteristic analysis showed an acceptable area under the curve (0.8581), and a cutoff score of 2 or greater was selected to indicate risk (median sensitivity = 91.4%, median specificity = 60.9%). CONCLUSIONS Although further studies of validity and reliability are necessary to establish the tool before widespread use, the MEAL Scale is a needed step toward nutrition screening in a wound patient population.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Advances in skin & wound care

دوره 29 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016