Reflections on a seminal article on malnutrition published in the British Journal of Nutrition, 2004

Since nutritional screening was often not undertaken, much malnutrition went undetected and untreated, at great cost to the patients and care services. [...]in the absence of a gold standard for malnutrition screening, the study established the concurrent (correlational) validity between ‘MUST’ and...

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Published in:British journal of nutrition 2022-06, Vol.127 (11), p.1682-1684
Main Authors: Elia, Marinos, Stratton, Rebecca J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Human and Clinical Nutrition
Humans
Invited
Invited Commentary
Malnutrition
Mass Screening
Medical research
Nutrition
Nutrition Assessment
Nutritional Status
Reproducibility of Results
Scholarly publishing
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Summary:Since nutritional screening was often not undertaken, much malnutrition went undetected and untreated, at great cost to the patients and care services. [...]in the absence of a gold standard for malnutrition screening, the study established the concurrent (correlational) validity between ‘MUST’ and other screening tools. [...]the study found ‘MUST’ more user-friendly than other tools.
ISSN:0007-1145
1475-2662
DOI:10.1017/S0007114522001155