what is the name of the validated nutrition screening and assessment tool to be completed by a health care professional that can identify elders who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition?
malnutrition, or who are already malnourished. It identifies the risk of malnutrition before severe changes in weight or serum protein levels occur. The MNAÂ®-SF was developed by NestlÃ© and leading international geriatricians and remains one of the few validated screening tools for the elderly. It has been well validated in international studies in a variety of settings5-7 and correlates with morbidity and mortality. In 2009 the MNAÂ®-SF was validated as a stand alone screening tool, based on the full MNAÂ®.8 The MNAÂ®-SF may be completed at regular intervals in the community and in the hospital or long-term care setting.
Identification of at risk patients by nutrition screening requires a practical and easy to use tool. In this study, we have compared a simple, novel nutrition screening tool designed for an oncology inpatient setting and the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) against the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA).