Comparison of the Mini Nutritional Assessment, Subjective Global Assessment, and Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS 2002) for nutritional screening and assessment in geriatric hospital patients

Autor: T. Vogl, J. Trögner, W. Mühlberg, Cornel C. Sieber, Juergen M. Bauer, S. Wicklein
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie. 38:322-327
ISSN: 1435-1269
0948-6704
DOI: 10.1007/s00391-005-0331-9
Popis: The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) and the Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS) are screening and assessment tools aimed at detecting malnourished individuals and those at risk for malnutrition. In our study we tested their applicability in geriatric hospital patients and compared the results of the three tools. We examined prospectively all patients of two acute geriatric wards by the MNA, the SGA and the NRS. 121 patients were included in the study. The MNA could be completed in 66.1% of all patients, the SGA in 99.2% and the NRS in 98.3%. There was a significant association of all three tools with the BMI (p
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