Abstract:Malnutrition is prevalent among hospitalised patients worldwide (1) . Nutrition screening is not routinely performed among patients in hospitals in Greece, partly because of a confusion that exists about the reliability and practicality of various screening tools.The present preliminary study aimed at evaluating, for the first time in Greece, the use of two nutrition screening tools for the assessment of the risk of undernutrition in hospitalised patients. Undernutrition risk score (URS) (2) and nutritional ri… Show more
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