NUTR 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Inter-Rater Reliability, Physical Examination, Medical History
22 Nov 2017
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Oct 31st: clinical assessment, medical & family history, nutrition screening, types of screening tool. Clinical assessment (information from medical charts, team meetings, asking the patient) When asking sensitive information about the patient like income you should put it at the end of the questionnaire so you can establish trust. The purpose of nutrition screening to identify those at risk. Point of using screening tools is they are very quick help inform care process. Screening tools depend on the population and setting, they may include dietary, anthropometric, clinical, and biochemical risk factors. Stamp: screening tool for malnutrition in pediatrics 5 steps. Good screening tools are: simple and quick to complete, cost effective, good sensitivity and specificity, facilitate early intervention, and can be completed by all. Highly sensitivity: picks up small changes in nutritional risk. 100% sensitive malnutrition tool (cid:374)o (cid:373)al(cid:374)ourished perso(cid:374) is classified as (cid:862)well(cid:863) High specificity: specific enough to identify the nutritional risk in question rather than other problems.
