A multicentre development and evaluation of a dietetic referral score for nutritional risk in sick infants

Unrecognized nutritional issues may delay recovery in hospitalized infants. It has been proposed that nutritional risk screening should be performed at hospital admission, but few tools include infants. The aim of this study was to develop and test a tool to identify sick infants in need of dietetic input.

Source: Clinical Nutrition - September 4, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Konstantinos Gerasimidis, Shamsi Milani, Andrew Tester, Orla Purcell, Catriona Woodley, Melina Tsiountsioura, Alexandra Koulieri, Ourania Zerva, Konstantina Loizou, Mandana Rafeey, Meropi Kontogianni, Charlotte Wright Tags: Original article Source Type: research