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Malnutrition and poor food intake are associated with prolonged hospital stay, frequent readmissions, and greater in-hospital mortality: Results from the Nutrition Care Day Survey 2010

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The ANCDS establishes that malnutrition and poor food intake are independently associated with in-hospital mortality in the Australian and New Zealand acute care setting.
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This article is published in Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 356 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: nutritionDay & Malnutrition.

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Malnutrition in the elderly: A narrative review

TL;DR: In this article, a range of simple and validated screening tools can be used to identify malnutrition in older adults, e.g. MST, MNA-SF and MUST, at diagnosis, admission to hospitals or care homes and during follow up at outpatient or General Practitioner clinics, at regular intervals depending on clinical status.
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Hospital-associated functional decline: the role of hospitalization processes beyond individual risk factors.

TL;DR: To investigate the combined contribution of processes of hospitalization and preadmission individual risk factors in explaining functional decline at discharge and at 1‐month follow‐up in older adults with nondisabling conditions.
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Association of nutritional risk and adverse medical outcomes across different medical inpatient populations.

TL;DR: Nutritional risk is significant in acutely ill medical inpatients and is associated with increased medical resource use, adverse clinical outcomes, and impairments in functional ability and QoL.
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Malnutrition and cachexia in patients with head and neck cancer treated with (chemo)radiotherapy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the problems associated with nutrition that occur in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) and highlight the importance of early screening, assessment of nutritional status and appropriate intervention.
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The impact of malnutrition on morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay and costs evaluated through a multivariate model analysis.

TL;DR: It was concluded that malnutrition, as analyzed by a multivariate logistic regression model, is an independent risk factor impacting on higher complications and increased mortality, length of hospital stay and costs.
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Prognostic impact of disease-related malnutrition.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the studies investigating the prognostic implications of disease-related malnutrition and concludes that nutritional assessment is mandatory in order to recognise malnutrition early and initiate timely nutritional therapy.
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Development of a valid and reliable malnutrition screening tool for adult acute hospital patients.

TL;DR: The malnutrition screening tool (MST), which consisted of two questions regarding appetite and recent unintentional weight loss, is a simple, quick, valid, and reliable tool which can be used to identify patients at risk of malnutrition.
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