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

Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine856 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

856

Conditions

Malnutrition

Interventions

no interventionOTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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.

Locations (1)

Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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

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.

Time frame: up to 4 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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