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Key points. The purpose of nutritional screening is to rapidly identify patients at high nutritional risk. The purpose of nutritional assessment, however, is to define a patient's nutritional status, to define clinically relevant malnutrition and to monitor changes in nutritional status.
- The purpose of nutritional screening is to rapidly identify patients at high nutritional risk.
- The purpose of nutritional assessment, however, is to define a patient’s nutritional status, to define clinically relevant malnutrition and to monitor changes in nutritional status.
- Nutritional risk continues to be unrecognized and undertreated in clinical practice.
- Hospitals need to develop comprehensive strategies for identifying and treating malnutrition at hospital admission and for monitoring the nutritional status of patients during their hospital stay.