Objective A neonatal nutritional risk screening tool (NNRST) was developed by using Delphi and analytic hierarchy processes in China. We verified the accuracy of this tool and analysed whether it ...

The detection of malnutrition and its active management is, therefore, pivotal to these patients' well-being and survival. The aim of this study was to design and develop a simple, nutritional ...

Aims A child's nutritional status often deteriorates over the course of a hospital admission. No universally accepted paediatric nutritional screening tool exists. This study aimed to evaluate ...

We explored the validity of two tools in a tertiary Children's Hospital's acute unit and the cohort's nutritional status using WHO definitions. Methods Prospective study n=300 (median 38 months; 44.6% ...

Introduction The British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition’s (BAPEN) nutritional screening week in 2011 found that 25–34% of ... which state that all patients must be screened for the ...