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Subjective Global Assessment

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Subjective Global Assessment,
a method of rating a patient's nutritional status, with subjective observations being given values on an ordinal scale. Factors assessed include weight change, appetite or anorexia, subcutaneous tissue and muscle, and GI symptoms.


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The researchers found that the score on the distress thermometer was positively correlated with the total score of the patient-generated subjective global assessment.
In an audit using Subjective Global Assessment with 2208 acute and 839 aged care patients in 20 public hospitals and 6 aged care facilities, Banks and colleagues confirmed that malnutrition is a significant problem requiring action in recognition, prevention and treatment.
There has been an intense debate in the literature about the relative merits of two different approaches for identifying patients at risk of nutrition-related complications -- subjective global assessment (a detailed nutritional history combined with weight and other physical measurements) versus widely used serum albumin and transferrin measurements.
 
 
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