caa a22 4500 38809687X CHVBK 20180307125306.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1079/PNS19990006 doi S0029665199000087 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1079/PNS19990006 Baxter J. P. Department of Digestive Diseases and Clinical Nutrition, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DDl SSY, UK Problems of nutritional assessment in the acute setting [Elektronische Daten] [J. P. Baxter] Surveys have shown that 20-50 % of hospital admissions suffer from nutritional depletion and that there is failure to recognize its existence and significance. More emphasis must be placed in clinical medicine on identifying subjects who are at high risk of developing disease-related malnutrition. There is a need to screen patients on admission to hospital to identify those at risk of nutrition-related complications. More formal determination of nutritional status should be carried out to define the nutritional status of the patient and to monitor changes in nutritional status during nutritional support. The most frequently used tests of nutritional status include dietary, anthropometric, biochemical and functional indices of nutritional status. It is important, and indeed is the skill of the nutritional care team (particularly the dietitian) to be able to evaluate these measurements, as many of them are affected by non-nutritional factors. There is no consensus on the best method for the accurate assessment of nutritional status. Practical difficulties arise with individual measurements and in their interpretation in the acute setting. The aim of the present paper is to identify the most relevant variables to measure in clinical medicine, and to discuss the limitations of their use in the acute setting. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999 Nutritional status assessment nationallicence Anthropometry nationallicence Body composition assessment nationallicence Biochemical markers nationallicence Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/1(1999-02), 39-46 0029-6651 58:1<39 1999 58 PNS https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS19990006 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS19990006 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Baxter J. P. Department of Digestive Diseases and Clinical Nutrition, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DDl SSY, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/1(1999-02), 39-46 0029-6651 58:1<39 1999 58 PNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge