title: Assessment of nutritional status: functional indicators of pediatric nutriture.
abstract: The author speaks to the need to update our conceptual approach and our technical capacities for nutritional status assessment and to devise innovative ways to apply them to pediatric practice. The article discusses and evaluates conventional, static indices of nutriture and the importance of history and the physical examination. Focus is then placed on the concept of the functional assessment of nutritional status and its potential for clinical use.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003677:Deficiency Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010808:Physical Examination