Clinical and cost-effectiveness analysis of early detection of patients at nutrition risk during their hospital stay through the new screening method CIPA: a study protocol

• Main Authors: José Pablo Suárez-Llanos (Author), Néstor Benítez-Brito (Author), Laura Vallejo-Torres (Author), Irina Delgado-Brito (Author), Adriá Rosat-Rodrigo (Author), Carolina Hernández-Carballo (Author), Yolanda Ramallo-Fariña (Author), Francisca Pereyra- (Author), Juan Carlos-Romero (Author), Nieves Felipe-Pérez (Author), Jennifer García-Niebla (Author), Eduardo Mauricio Calderón-Ledezma (Author), Teresa de Jesús González-Melián (Author), Ignacio Llorente-Gómez de Segura (Author), Manuel Ángel Barrera-Gómez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Malnutrition is highly prevalent in hospitalized patients and results in a worsened clinical course as well as an increased length of stay, mortality, and costs. Therefore, simple nutrition screening systems, such as CIPA (control of food intake, protein, anthropometry), may be i...