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**Introduction** Malnutrition in hospital is a well‐documented and significant problem and contributes to increased recovery times, length of stays, cost to the NHS and patient mortality and morbidity. Malnutrition in hospitals has been found to be in excess of 40% of admissions. In spite of the fact that nutritional support has been found to benefit patients, referral rates to dietetic services do not reflect these levels. A study was carried out in Hairmyres Hospital to validate a nutritional assessment score (NAS) and assess the benefits and costs of introducing this assessment as a routine part of nursing care. **Methods** An NAS was completed for all patients admitted to two medical and two surgical wards over a 4‐week period and nutritionally assessed by a dietitian. Assessment was carried out on admission and weekly thereafter, for 118 patients, resulting in a total of 150 assessments. **Results** With a scoring system of: On Admission: Refer if score is 6 or above, On Review: Refer if score is 4 or above, it was found that 92% of patients at risk of malnutrition would be appropriately referred on admission and 100% of those patients not appropriately referred would be refer

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Author

C. Oakley; R. Hill

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0952-3871)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)