Malnutrition in Chinese Hospitalized Patients and Optimizing the Usage of Nutritional Screening Tools

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Malnutrition Nutrition Disorders Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

No intervention

Other

Primary outcomes

prevalence of malnutrition on admission detected by the four nutritional screening tools

Time frame: 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2012
Primary completion: 2012
First posted: Sep 16, 2014
Registry last updated: Sep 18, 2014

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