Children who are admitted to the hospital are at a risk of developing undernutrition,
especially children with an underlying disease. High percentages of both acute and chronic …

Objective: This systematic review aimed to verify the available scientific evidence on the
clinical performance and diagnostic accuracy of nutritional screening tools in hospitalized …

Background: Several malnutrition screening tools have been advocated for use in pediatric
inpatients. Objective: We evaluated how 3 popular pediatric nutrition screening tools [ie, the …

Objective The STRONG kids is a nutritional screening tool for hospitalized children, which
was found to predict a negative weight for height (WFH) standard deviation score (SDS) and …

Objectives Many screening methods, such as the Screening Tool Risk on Nutritional Status
and Growth (STRONGkids) and the Pediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score (PYMS), have been …

Background. Malnutrition in hospitalized children can be prevented if children with risk of
malnutrition are identified. Every hospital is recommended to have a standard nutritional …

Aim Children requiring hospitalization are at risk of malnutrition. This study aimed to define
the nutritional status of paediatric inpatients in comparison with healthy children and to …

Objective The aim of the present study was to identify all currently available screening and
assessment tools for detection of malnutrition in hospitalised children, and to identify the …

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the predictive accuracy of screening
tools for assessing nutritional risk in hospitalized children in developed countries. Methods …

Objective To assess the prevalence, causes, and consequences of malnutrition, as well as
the evolution of nutritional status, in Canadian pediatric health care institutions. Study design …