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Malnutrition is common among hospitalized children,
especially those who are critically ill. Routine measures,
such as anthropometric measurements, body composition,
and nutritional assessment, comprise the basics
of monitoring. This review discusses the adequacy of
nutritional screening tools (NSTs) such as the SGNA
(Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment), PYMS (Pediatric
Yorkhill Malnutrition Score), STAMP (Screening
Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Paediatrics),
and STRONGkids (Screening Tool for Risk of Nutritional
Status... |