Yves Guigoz

TL;DR: The Mini-Nutritional Assessment can identify persons with undernutrition and can be used in a two-step screening process in which persons, identified as "at risk" on the MNA-SF, would receive additional assessment to confirm the diagnosis and plan interventions.

TL;DR: The Mini Nutritional Assessment has recently been designed and validated to provide a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in elderly patients in outpatient clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes and was found to be predictive of mortality and hospital cost.

TL;DR: The newly revised MNA-SF is a valid nutritional screening tool applicable to geriatric health care professionals with the option of using CC when BMI cannot be calculated and increases the applicability of this rapid screening tool in clinical practice through the inclusion of a “malnourished” category.

TL;DR: The MNA-SF is a simple, noninvasive, well-validated screening tool for malnutrition in elderly persons and is recommended for early detection of risk of malnutrition as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is a simple tool, useful in clinical practice to measure nutritional status in elderly persons and has been shown to be useful for nutritional intervention follow-up as well.