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The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and its use in grading the nutritional state of elderly patients.

B. Vellas, Y. Guigoz, Y. Guigoz, P. Garry, F. Nourhashemi, D. Bennahum, S. Lauque, J. Albarède

1999.2.1NUTRITION

DOI: 10.1016/s0899-9007(98)00171-3

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The Mini Nutritional Assessment has recently been designed and validated to provide a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in elderly patients in outpatient clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes and was found to be predictive of mortality and hospital cost.

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VELLAS, B., et al. The mini nutritional assessment (MNA) and its use in grading the nutritional state of elderly patients. NUTRITION, 1999, 15 2: 116–22.