Essential for all,

Screening

Screening is the first step and essential for a successful nutritional management to detect those at risk of/or with nutritional problems. Screening should be performed within 24 hours of admission so that nutrition therapy can be defined and started quickly.
Nutritional screening should be done with a validated screening tool and followed up by appropriate action.
NRS 2002 — part of the gnp programme — is the most validated screening tool for the clinic, based on 128 studies and recommended by “ESPEN — Guidelines for Nutrition Screening 2002”.¹
It is a rapid and simple procedure, which can be done routinely by any healthcare professional in less than 5 minutes.

Find the screening tools to detect your malnourished patients here:

For hospitals:

For nursing homes:

For oncology patients:

References:

1) Kondrup J et al. Nutritional risk screening (NRS 2002): a new method based on an analysis of controlled clinical trials. Clin Nutr. 2003 Jun;22(3):321-36.