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Malnutrition screening tools for hospitalized children

Corina Hartman1, Raanan Shamir, Christina Hecht

  • 1Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Clalit Health Services, Petach Tikva, Israel. corinahartman@gmail.com

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
|May 17, 2012
PubMed

Insights

Hospitalized children frequently experience malnutrition. This review examines five screening tools and European research efforts to standardize malnutrition diagnosis and screening in pediatric patients.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Nutrition
  • Clinical Malnutrition Assessment

Background:

  • Malnutrition is common in hospitalized children, impacting clinical outcomes.
  • Current pediatric nutrition screening lacks standardization despite recommendations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review five existing nutrition screening tools for hospitalized children.
  • To describe European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) research for standardized malnutrition criteria.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of nutrition screening tools.
  • Analysis of ESPEN research initiatives.

Main Results:

  • Five nutrition screening tools have been developed but lack independent validation.
  • These tools are not yet widely adopted in standard pediatric care.

Conclusions:

  • A standardized approach to nutritional screening for pediatric inpatients is currently lacking.
  • Future research and comparative data are expected to establish a standard for pediatric nutrition screening.
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