EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YAER
©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024
SGA/ASPEN malnutrition Study Guide
NRS 2002 - Answer✔✔-Screening tool used in hospitalized pts that looks at wt loss,
BMI, food intake, disease severity, age >70, & impaired general condition
NUTRIC - Answer✔✔-Screening tool used in ICU pts that looks at age, comorbidities,
day of hospitalization to ICU, APACHE II, & SOFA
1. Medical hx/current status
2. Food/nutrition hx
3. NFPE
4. Anthros
5. Functional capacity
6. Biochemical data - Answer✔✔-What are the 6 components of a comprehensive
nutritional assessment?
Subjective global assessment (SGA) - Answer✔✔-What tool is commonly used for
nutrition assessment, validated in ambulatory & acute care (though not recommended in
ICU)?
Patient Guided SGA - Answer✔✔-What nutrition assessment tool is validated for
ambulatory & acute care, commonly used in cancer pts?
Mini Nutritional Assessment - Answer✔✔-What nutrition assessment tool is validated
specifically for the elderly population?
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FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024
AND/ASPEN Malnutrition clinical characteristics - Answer✔✔-What nutrition
assessment method is not validated, recommended as a standardized set of diagnostic
characteristics to identify adult malnutrition that incorporates the role of the inflammatory
response?
1. Fat depletion
2. Muscle loss
3. Edema - Answer✔✔-What are the 3 components of physical examination used in
SGA?
1. Wt loss
2. Nutrition intake
3. GI symptoms
4. Functional status
5 Metabolic stress/demand - Answer✔✔-What are the 5 components of
medical/nutritional history used in SGA?
1. Nutritional intake
2. Wt loss
3. Muscle loss
4. Fat depletion - Answer✔✔-What 4 components of SGA carry the most wt for
making a clinical decision about malnutrition?
5-10% x6 mos - Answer✔✔-What amount of unintended wt loss classifies a pt as
moderately malnourished using SGA?
2/5
©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024
SGA/ASPEN malnutrition Study Guide
NRS 2002 - Answer✔✔-Screening tool used in hospitalized pts that looks at wt loss,
BMI, food intake, disease severity, age >70, & impaired general condition
NUTRIC - Answer✔✔-Screening tool used in ICU pts that looks at age, comorbidities,
day of hospitalization to ICU, APACHE II, & SOFA
1. Medical hx/current status
2. Food/nutrition hx
3. NFPE
4. Anthros
5. Functional capacity
6. Biochemical data - Answer✔✔-What are the 6 components of a comprehensive
nutritional assessment?
Subjective global assessment (SGA) - Answer✔✔-What tool is commonly used for
nutrition assessment, validated in ambulatory & acute care (though not recommended in
ICU)?
Patient Guided SGA - Answer✔✔-What nutrition assessment tool is validated for
ambulatory & acute care, commonly used in cancer pts?
Mini Nutritional Assessment - Answer✔✔-What nutrition assessment tool is validated
specifically for the elderly population?
1/5
, EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YAER
©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024
AND/ASPEN Malnutrition clinical characteristics - Answer✔✔-What nutrition
assessment method is not validated, recommended as a standardized set of diagnostic
characteristics to identify adult malnutrition that incorporates the role of the inflammatory
response?
1. Fat depletion
2. Muscle loss
3. Edema - Answer✔✔-What are the 3 components of physical examination used in
SGA?
1. Wt loss
2. Nutrition intake
3. GI symptoms
4. Functional status
5 Metabolic stress/demand - Answer✔✔-What are the 5 components of
medical/nutritional history used in SGA?
1. Nutritional intake
2. Wt loss
3. Muscle loss
4. Fat depletion - Answer✔✔-What 4 components of SGA carry the most wt for
making a clinical decision about malnutrition?
5-10% x6 mos - Answer✔✔-What amount of unintended wt loss classifies a pt as
moderately malnourished using SGA?
2/5
