NUTR 8020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Body Fat Percentage, Anthropometry, Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry
15 Dec 2018
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A nutritional assessment should have multiple components, including a client history, a food and nutrition related history, medication regimen, anthropometrics, laboratory and medical tests, and physical findings. Nutritional status is the health status of individuals or population groups as influenced by their intake and utilization of nutrients. An individual"s nutrition status can be determined by evaluating diet patterns and quality, the process of food and fluid intake, digestion, nutrient absorption, metabolism, and their excretion of waste products. Nutritional screening is when you look if the patient or client is at nutritional risk and will benefit from nutrition assessment and intervention by a nutrition professional. The and has completed an evidence analysis to help define the sensitivity, specificity, and reliability of some of the available screens in identifying nutrition risks for different patient populations. Sensitivity: how effective is the screening tool in detecting a disease or condition. The higher the sensitivity of the tool, the fewer cases of nutrition risk.
