title: Evaluation of malnutrition in patients with nervous system disease.
abstract: Nutritional deficiencies are independent risk factors for adverse outcomes in patients with nervous system disease. Patients with nervous system disease can often become malnourished due to swallowing difficulties or unconsciousness. This malnourishment increases hospitalization duration; average total hospital cost; occurrence of infection, pressure ulcers, and other complications. These problems need to be addressed in the clinic. In this paper, we review the relevant literature, including studies on influencing factors, evaluations, indexes, and methods: Our aim is to understand the current status of malnutrition in patients with nervous system disease and reasons associated with nutritional deficiencies by using malnutrition evaluation methods to assess the risk of nutritional deficiencies in the early stages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yao-wen
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xue-feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Guang-wei
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: malnutrition; nervous system diseases; nutritional assessment tool; nutritional deficiencies; protein-energy malnutrition