CONUT: A Useful Alarm of Malnutrition in the Centralized Laboratory of a Spanish Hospital

Miriam Menacho-Román; Gilberto Pérez-López; José Manuel del Rey-Sánchez; Domingo Ly-Pen; Antonio Becerra-Fernández

Volume 3, Issue 4 , October 2018, , Pages 113-117

https://doi.org/10.15171/hpr.2018.25

Abstract
  Background: Hospital malnutrition, usually secondary to various diseases and their treatments, is an important problem in our clinical practice. For its proper assessment, it is crucial to use a nutritional alert system, such as the CONUT (COntrol NUTrition) program; this tool uses 3 analytical parameters: ...  Read More