نتایج جستجو برای: malnutrition score

تعداد نتایج: 243268  

2013
Hasanain Faisal Ghazi Jamsiah Mustafa Syed Aljunid Zaleha Md. Isa Mohammed A. Abdalqader

The unstable geopolitical situation in Iraq since 2003 still affects the health of people, especially children. Several factors may indirectly affect a child's nutritional status. The main aim of this study was to identify factors contributing to malnutrition among 3 to 5 years old children in Baghdad city, Iraq. Two hundred twenty children aged 3 to 5 years were chosen randomly from four kinde...

Journal: :Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition 2009
Su-Lin Lim Chung-Yan Tong Emily Ang Evan Jon-Choon Lee Wai-Chiong Loke Yuming Chen Maree Ferguson Lynne Daniels

It is important to detect and treat malnutrition in hospital patients so as to improve clinical outcome and reduce hospital stay. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a nutrition screening tool with a simple and quick scoring system for acute hospital patients in Singapore. In this study, 818 newly admitted patients aged above 18 years old were screened using five parameters that c...

Journal: :The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2000
C Gazzotti A Albert A Pepinster J Petermans

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition in elderly patients hospitalized with an acute illness, as well as to assess the clinical usefulness of standardized nutritional assessment upon admission by means of the MNA scale. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING A large size regional university hospital. SUBJECTS There were 175 patients (113 women and 62 ...

Journal: :American journal of epidemiology 2011
Sheila Isanaka Rebecca F Grais André Briend Francesco Checchi

Expected incidence of acute malnutrition is the most appropriate measure for projecting the needs of a nutritional treatment program over time in terms of staffing, food, and other treatments, but direct estimation of incidence is rarely feasible at the onset of an intervention. While incidence may be approximated as prevalence/average duration, ethical constraints preclude measurement of the d...

2011
Sheila Isanaka Rebecca F. Grais André Briend Francesco Checchi

Expected incidence of acute malnutrition is the most appropriate measure for projecting the needs of a nutritional treatment program over time in terms of staffing, food, and other treatments, but direct estimation of incidence is rarely feasible at the onset of an intervention. While incidence may be approximated as prevalence/average duration, ethical constraints preclude measurement of the d...

2017

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...

Journal: :Pediatrics 2009
Sheila Isanaka Eduardo Villamor Susan Shepherd Rebecca F Grais

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to assess the impact of adopting the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children compared with the use of the National Center for Health Statistics growth reference. METHODS We used data from children aged 6 to 59 months with acute malnutrition ...

Journal: :journal of research in health sciences 0

background: the main objective of this study was to assess the malnutrition and some socio-economic related factors based on three ethnic groups among primary school children in north of iran in 2010 . methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out through multistage cluster random sampling on 5698 subjects (2505 fars-native, 2154 turkman, and 1039 sistani) in 112 schools. well-trained sta...

2015
Madeleine Frank Aravinth Sivagnanaratnam Jo Bernstein

Malnutrition affects over three million people in the UK with associated health costs exceeding £13 billion annually.[1] In hospital, malnutrition has been shown to increase complication rates, morbidity, mortality, hospital readmissions, and length of hospital stay.[2] To screen for malnutrition, a reliable and validated screening tool such as the malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) s...

Background: Malnutrition is one of the most common disorders among children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). The present study aimed to investigate the effect of nutritional consultation on the type and severity of malnutrition in children with CF. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental stud...

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