Malnutrition
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is: * to diagnose malnutrition in Chinese hospitalized patients with four nutritional screening tools: mini-nutritional assessment - short form, subjective global assessment, malnutrition universal screening tool and nutritional risk screening 2002. * to optimize the usage of nutritional screening tools based on data-mining methods.
Interventions
OTHERno intervention
Sponsors
Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Study design
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Ages≥18; admitted to hospital≥24h and did not receive operation until 8.am next day.
Exclusion criteria
* Patients who were pregnant or breast-feeding, and those who could not be interviewed or provide informed consent were excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| prevalence of malnutrition on admission detected by the four nutritional screening tools | up to 4 weeks | The measure of prevalence of malnutrition on admission is a composite outcome measure. In our study, we used four nutritional screening tools: MUST(malnutrition universal screening tool), SGA(subjective global assessment), MNA-SF(mini-nutritional assessment-short form) and NRS2002(nutritional risk screening 2002) to assess the malnutrition risk among Chinese hospitalized patients. |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed