Nutritional Screening and Anthropometry in Patients Admitted From the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the high prevalence of malnutrition among hospitalized patients, screening and assessment of nutritional status should be routinely performed upon hospital admission. The main objective of this observational study was to evaluate the prevalence of and the risk for malnutrition, as identified by using three nutritional screening tests, and to observe whether some anthropometric and functional parameters used for nutritional evaluation were related to these test scores.

Methods

This single-center observational study included 207 patients admitted from the emergency department for hospitalization in either the internal medicine or surgery units of our institution from September 2017 to December 2018. The prevalence of malnutrition among this patient sample was

SUBMITTER: Speranza E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8882738 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature