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Nutrition
Nutrition Nutrition Nutrition Monitoring
Screening Assessment Care Plan and
Evaluation
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Source: http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Met-Obe/Nutritional-Assessment.html
• The definition of nutritional status is: the condition of the
body as a result of the intake, absorption and use of
nutrition and the influence of disease-related factors.1
Determine the
best method Evaluate the
to initiate the effectiveness
therapy of the therapy
The most important goals of Nutritional
Assessment are:
In time discovery of Monitoring of changes in
malnourished patients or nutritional state during nutritional
patients at risk, so the dietician intervention.
can start her nutritional
treatment as soon as possible. Collecting data for scientific
research.
To determine the quantity of
malnutrition, so an adequate Attention for the nutritional
status of a patient in the hospital.
definition of the individual
nutritional need is possible.
Improvement of accomplishment
of Nutritional Assessment
Diagnostic purposes. measurements.
Anthropometrics
Biochemical Data
Clinical Data
Dietary Data
Anthropometrics
• Anthropometrics are the objective
measurements of body muscle
and fat .