Nature

Mini nutritional assessment and 10-year mortality in free-living elderly women: a prospective cohort study with 10-year follow-up

Mini nutritional assessment (MNA) is the most frequently used screening test for malnutrition in elderly populations in continental Europe and Asia. Most studies on MNA’s ability to predict mortality ...
CMAJ

Nutritional assessment and length of hospital stay

See related research article by Caccialanza and colleagues, page 1843 The reported prevalence of poor nutritional status has varied widely in studies, in part because of different populations and ...
ascopubs.org

Evaluation of mini nutritional assessment (MNA) in metastatic lung cancer patients: Correlation of laboratory values indicating malnutrition, inflammation, and cachexia with ...

Gemcitabine and oxaliplatin (GEMOX), a promissing combination for the treatment of relapsed, advanced or metastatic non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ...
JSTOR Daily

Early Recognition of Malnutrition in the Older Adult: A Quality Improvement Project Using a Standardized Nutritional Tool

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to identify the nutritional status of older adults in a primary care setting by using a standardized nutritional tool and to improve clinical outcomes by ...
Nursing Times

Nutritional assessment as part of wound management

Andrea Cartwright, RN, BSc, is nutritional nurse specialist, Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals NHS Trust Nutrition requires complex multidisciplinary organisational structures in hospitals but ...