Open Access<p>Low Self-Perception of Malnutrition in Older Hospitalized Patients</p>
Author(s) -
Gero Lueg,
Rainer Wirth,
Julia Kwiatkowski,
Alexander Rösler,
Martin Jäger,
I. Gehrke,
Dorothee Volkert,
Maryam Pourhassan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s278578
Subject(s) - medicine , malnutrition , weight loss , observational study , body weight , cross sectional study , pediatrics , gerontology , obesity , pathology
Studies focusing on self-perception of nutritional status in older hospitalized patients are lacking. We aimed to examine the self-perception of body weight and nutritional status among older hospitalized patients compared to their actual body weight and nutritional status based on medical assessment.