title: [Simplified malnutrition screening tool: Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)].
abstract: MUST (Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool) is a nutritional screening tool easy to use by any trained care-giver and valid for any adult patient. It considers body mass index, weight change and acute disease effect equally and determines a malnutrition risk score. If necessary, anthropometric measures may be simpliyfied by alternative methods. MUST is reliable between different healthcare settings et promotes detection and management of malnutrition during the patient medical course.
authors.affiliation: Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Unité de Nutrition.
authors.forename: Véronique L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Karsegard
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ferlay
authors.forename: Nadine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maisonneuve
authors.forename: Ursula G
authors.initials: UG
authors.lastname: Kyle
authors.forename: Yves M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Dupertuis
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Genton
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pichard
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008403:Mass Screening; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors