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•The risk for malnutrition increases with age and presence of cancer, and it is particularly common in older cancer patients.•A range of simple and validated nutrition screening tools can be used to identify malnutrition risk in cancer patients (e.g., Malnutrition Screening Tool, Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form Revised, Nutrition Risk Screening, and the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool)...
Controversies exist as to the suitability of various nutrition screening tools for various age groups, the incorporation of age and age-related criteria into some tools, and the procedures associated with tool selection.Reviews of the literature and national and local datasets were used to identify the types of screening tools available for different age groups, the origins of age-related criteria,...
Background & aims: Nutrition screening tools (NST) identify individuals who are malnourished or at risk of becoming malnourished and who may benefit from nutritional support. The aims of this study were to design, pilot and evaluate a NST based on four nutritional parameters (weight, height, recent unintentional weight loss and appetite) recommended by the British Association for Parenteral and...
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