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Nutritional Assessment (Mini Nutritional Assessment – MNA)

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The MNA is a monitoring tool that aims to identify patients at risk of malnutrition. This tool is very useful in the hospital setting, as malnourished patients are subject to a longer hospital stay.

Usually the assessment is divided into:

  • General Evaluation
  • Lifestyle, physical activity, medication
  • Dietary assessment
  • Number of meals
  • Subjective assessment by the patient
  • Patient perception of health and nutrition status
  • Anthropometric parameters
  • Weight, BMI, body circumference, subcutaneous folds

Source: Handbook of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition by Franco Contaldo et al.

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