TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying malnutrition risk in acute medical patients: validity and utility of malnutrition universal screening tool and modified malnutrition screening tool
AU - Gibson, Simone
AU - Sequeira, Jennifer
AU - Cant, Robyn Patricia
AU - Ku, Christopher Wern-Wei
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Nutrition screening is increasingly conducted in hospitals during the patient admission process. We aimed to
explore the ease of use of two tools in the conduct of screening by nutrition technicians (NTs), and to compare
validity. The tools are Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) and Modified Malnutrition Screening Tool
(Mod-MST).
AB - Nutrition screening is increasingly conducted in hospitals during the patient admission process. We aimed to
explore the ease of use of two tools in the conduct of screening by nutrition technicians (NTs), and to compare
validity. The tools are Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) and Modified Malnutrition Screening Tool
(Mod-MST).
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-0080.2012.01605.x/pdf
U2 - 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2012.01605.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2012.01605.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1446-6368
VL - 69
SP - 309
EP - 314
JO - Nutrition & Dietetics
JF - Nutrition & Dietetics
IS - 4
ER -
