NUTR 4010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Early Action, Food Security, Health Professional

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Ideally, no false negatives: specificity: correctly identifies those not at risk, high specificity: specific enough to identify the nutritional problem in question rather than other problems, 100% specific: no well-nourished classified as ill. Independent nutritional predictors of los included enteral or parenteral nutrition and <50% of food in first week: rd referrals were ad hoc and 75% of malnourished patients were missed. Integrated nutrition pathway for acute care (inpac: developed by the cmtf. Integrated and interdisciplinary approach: evidenced-based algorithm, for acute care medical and surgical patients, designed to detect nutrition risk and, malnutrition on admission, minimum standard for nutrition care. Involves entire healthcare team: canadian nutrition screening tool (cnst) Identify patients at risk for malnutrition: valid and reliable, 2 questions, rigorously validated and tested for reliability in 3 canadian hospitals using regular personnel (n=140), criterion validity: se 73% & sp 86%; Inter-rater reliability (n = 122): kappa = 0. 88;