Nutritional care; do process and structure indicators influence malnutrition prevalence over time?

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5871842	Clinical Nutrition	2014	7 Pages	PDF

Abstract

In conclusion, over time a lower prevalence of malnutrition is associated with a higher degree of nutritional screening. As might be expected, a higher prevalence of malnutrition is associated with higher use of ONS. Structural nutritional screening is an important intervention to tackle the problem of malnutrition in the long term care sector.

Keywords

MAR LPZ Trend Structure Malnutrition body mass index BMI Prevalence Process Outcome missing at random

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Nutritional care; do process and structure indicators influence malnutrition prevalence over time?

Authors

Judith M.M. Meijers, Frans Tan, Jos M.G.A. Schols, Ruud J.G. Halfens,