Lauren Power1, Marian A E de van der Schueren2, Susanne Leij-Halfwerk3, Jürgen Bauer4, Michelle Clarke5, Marjolein Visser6, Dorothee Volkert7, Laura Bardon8, Eileen Gibney9, Clare A Corish10. 1. School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; UCD Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: lapower@ucd.ie. 2. Department of Nutrition and Health, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: marian.devanderschueren@han.nl. 3. Department of Nutrition and Health, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Electronic address: susanne.leij@han.nl. 4. Centre for Geriatric Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: juergenmbauer@web.de. 5. UCD Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: michelle.clarke@ucd.ie. 6. Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: m.visser@vu.nl. 7. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany. Electronic address: dorothee.volkert@fau.de. 8. UCD Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: laura.bardon@ucdconnect.ie. 9. UCD Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: eileen.gibney@ucd.ie. 10. School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; UCD Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: clare.corish@ucd.ie.
Abstract
RATIONALE: Many malnutrition screening tools are used to screen for risk of malnutrition in older adults. An aim of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) 'A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life' (HDHL) MalNutrition in the ELderly Knowledge hub (MaNuEL) is to devise recommendations on the best tools to screen for risk of malnutrition in older adults in community and healthcare settings across Europe. The aim of this paper was to develop and apply a scoring system to rate malnutrition screening tools. METHODS: Using a targeted literature search strategy, 48 malnutrition screening tools used to screen for risk of malnutrition in older adults were identified across community, rehabilitation, residential care and hospital settings. Criteria to rate each tool were developed; these were based on published evidence and expert opinion. These criteria were translated into a scoring system. RESULTS: The scoring system had three equally weighted sections; validation, parameters and practicability, and was applied to all 48 tools. Overall, the highest scoring tools per setting for screening for risk of malnutrition in older adults were i) DETERMINE your health checklist for the community setting; ii) the Nutritional Form for the Elderly (NUFFE) for the rehabilitation setting; iii) the Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire-Residential Care (SNAQRC) for residential care and iv) both the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) and the Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form Version 1 (MNA-SF-V1) for the hospital setting. CONCLUSION: Setting-specific tools are more appropriate for use with older adults. These findings will inform recommendations for the optimal screening of geriatric malnutrition across Europe.
RATIONALE: Many malnutrition screening tools are used to screen for risk of malnutrition in older adults. An aim of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) 'A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life' (HDHL) MalNutrition in the ELderly Knowledge hub (MaNuEL) is to devise recommendations on the best tools to screen for risk of malnutrition in older adults in community and healthcare settings across Europe. The aim of this paper was to develop and apply a scoring system to rate malnutrition screening tools. METHODS: Using a targeted literature search strategy, 48 malnutrition screening tools used to screen for risk of malnutrition in older adults were identified across community, rehabilitation, residential care and hospital settings. Criteria to rate each tool were developed; these were based on published evidence and expert opinion. These criteria were translated into a scoring system. RESULTS: The scoring system had three equally weighted sections; validation, parameters and practicability, and was applied to all 48 tools. Overall, the highest scoring tools per setting for screening for risk of malnutrition in older adults were i) DETERMINE your health checklist for the community setting; ii) the Nutritional Form for the Elderly (NUFFE) for the rehabilitation setting; iii) the Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire-Residential Care (SNAQRC) for residential care and iv) both the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) and the Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form Version 1 (MNA-SF-V1) for the hospital setting. CONCLUSION: Setting-specific tools are more appropriate for use with older adults. These findings will inform recommendations for the optimal screening of geriatric malnutrition across Europe.
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