MICHAEL J. RENNIE,* RICHARD H. T. EDWARDS,* C. T. MERVYN DAVIES,? STEPHEN KRYWAWYCH,* DAVID HALLIDAYJ JOHN C. WATERLOW$ and DAVID J. MILLWARD$ *Department of Human Metabolism, University Colrege London Medical School, London W C l E SJJ, U.K., ?Medical Research Council Environmental Physiology Unit and $Department of Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London W C l ...

A systematic review with meta-analysis was completed to determine the capacity of risk assessment scales and nurses' clinical judgment to predict pressure ulcer (PU) development. Electronic databases were searched for prospective studies on the validity and predictive capacity of PUs risk assessment scales published between 1962 and 2010 in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, German, and Gree...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether risk assessment scales can be used to identify patients who are likely to get pressure ulcers. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Two large hospitals in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 1229 patients admitted to the surgical, internal, neurological, or geriatric wards between January 1999 and June 2000. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Occurrence of a pressure ulcer...

malnutrition is one of the important health problems in developing countries.it may have undesireable effects on mental and physical state of children and is an underlying factor for many infections.the aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of malnutrition in 6-24 month old in fanst in the pediatric ward of university hospital NO.1  in Kerman.for this purpose , the weight and height ...

As protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) develops, the protein content of the body falls, despite the many mechanisms which operate to limit the further loss of nitrogen from the body (Waterlow, 1968). Studies of the composition of children dying of PCM have shown that in both kwashiorkor and marasmus there is a reduction in total body protein to about two-thirds of the normal amount for a child o...

Oedema and expansion of the extracellular fluid are well recognized as a complication of malnutrition in adults (McCance, 1951) as well as in children (Waterlow, Cravioto, and Stephen, 1960). An increase in total body water has also been described (Srikantia and Gopalan, 1957; Schnieden, Hendrickse, and Haigh, 1958; Smith, 1960). In the course of investigations on the renal function of malnouri...