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• TITLE: Nutritional Screening in a University Hospital: Comparison between Oncologic and Non-Oncologic Patients

  AUTHORS: Selma F. C. Cunha, Lidiane S. Tanaka, Roberta G. Salomão, Danielle M. Macedo, Thatiane D. Santos, Fernanda M. Peria

  KEYWORDS: Nutritional Screening, Malnutrition, Subjective Global Assessment, Hospital Setting, Neoplasia

  JOURNAL NAME: Food and Nutrition Sciences, Vol.6 No.1, January 13, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Background & Aims: We compared the screening nutritional data of patients with malignant and non-malignant disease, and classified their nutritional risk according to the primary tumor’s site. Methods: Subjective Global Assessment was applied to 3008 patients within 48 h of admission to a public university. Subjects were divided into Oncologic Group (n = 576) or Non-Oncologic Group (n = 2432) according to the presence of neoplasms or other diseases respectively. These data were compared by the t-student test and classic chi-square test, with statistical significance set at p