Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment for children

Secker, Donna; Jeejeebhoy, Khursheed N.

doi:10.1093/ajcn/85.4.1083

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“…This incidence was >50% in four of the included studies, 12,13,23,26 and the lowest rate was found in the largest cohort study which reported an incidence of 14.5%. 21 A formula using height and/or weight parameters was most commonly used to assess nutritional status.…”

Section: Methods Of Nutritional Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…Three papers excluded neonates: Rojratsirikul et al excluded infants aged less than two months, 27 whilst Secker and Jeejeebhoy and Stey et al excluded neonates aged <31 days and <28 days, respectively. 12,21 The remaining 10 studies were performed in children with a minimum age of three days and overall median age of 10.6 months. 23 Four studies were undertaken in cardiac surgical populations, 13,20,21,29 and four studies were undertaken in general surgical populations, mainly gastrointestinal/abdominal surgery.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…25 Two studies compared a nutrition history questionnaire, the Subjective Global Assessment, against anthropometric assessments to assess the efficacy of the tool in identifying children at risk of postoperative complications. 12,27 The focus of these studies was to identify and compare undernourished children with their well-nourished counterparts; outcome data were extracted for both groups.…”

Section: Methods Of Nutritional Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…25,28,29 However, only one study demonstrated confidence intervals suggestive of statistical significance. 25 Five studies reported an outcome for combined infectionrelated complications; 12,13,20,23,27 two of these reported significant relative risks, indicating an association between undernutrition and infection. 12,20 This association persisted in the study that undertook adjusted analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, only two of the included studies reported infection-related outcomes. 12,13 These observations indicate that the relationship between undernutrition and postoperative infection complications in children has not been fully delineated, justifying the need for a systematic review of the existing research literature. The subject area is important because nutritional status is a potentially modifiable risk factor.…”

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Is undernutrition prognostic of infection complications in children undergoing surgery? A systematic review

Hill

Paulus

Dey

et al. 2016

Journal of Hospital Infection

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Background: Healthcare-associated infections are costly and are increasingly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care. Although strategies to reduce infections have become widespread, few studies have formally investigated the role of undernutrition on the development of infection-related complications in children after surgery. Aim: To perform a systematic review of the literature to determine if undernutrition is prognostic of postoperative infection complications in children. Methods: Electronic bibliographic and research databases were searched from 1950 to 2014. Inclusion criteria were studies in children (age <18 years) evaluating pre-operative nutritional status and reporting postoperative infection complications. Quality assessment was performed independently by two reviewers, with disagreements resolved by a third reviewer. The quality of the evidence was judged to be low in the majority of studies. Findings: Ten cohort and two caseecontrol studies met the inclusion criteria. Five studies reported an outcome combining infection-related complications, with the remainder reporting individual infection complications. Six studies reported surgical site infection (SSI) alone or in combination with other infection complications. Direct comparison between studies was difficult due to clinical and diagnostic heterogeneity. Unadjusted analyses (for patient or clinical variables) were suggestive of a relationship between undernutrition and infection complications. In studies controlling for other variables, the analyses did not remain significant for SSI. Conclusion: There was low-quality evidence that undernutrition may be predictive of postoperative infection complications in children, with the exception of SSI. However, inconsistencies in nutritional and outcome assessments made it difficult to draw conclusions. Larger, high-quality studies are warranted to further investigate a potential prognostic relationship. ª

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Section: Methods Of Nutritional Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 77%

Section: Search Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methods Of Nutritional Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Relationship Between Undernutrition and Infectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Is undernutrition prognostic of infection complications in children undergoing surgery? A systematic review

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Paediatric Nutritional Screening, Assessment and Support

Cooke¹

2010

Nutrition and HIV

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Hand grip strength in boys and girls from summer school camps in Spain, 1900–1925. A comparison with 21st century data

Herráez

Marrodán

Espinosa

2021

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives The Spanish National Pedagogic Museum (Museo Pedagógico Nacional, MPN), founded by La Institución Libre de Enseñanza, organized the first summer school camps in Spain and their initiative was followed by other institutions in this country. MPN prepared anthropological forms for those sojourns, which included information about both metric and physiological measurements of the schoolchildren. The aim of the current work is to analyze hand grip strength data and to compare them with recent values. Methods The initial sample included 2418 schoolchildren from 6 to 16 years old (1467 males, 951 females) attending the camps, but after preliminary analyses, the study was restricted to 1073 boys and 818 girls in the 1900–1925 interval. Three time periods were established and 13 categories of height at camp entry, every 5 cm. Normality tests were run as well as contrasts of means, and both average values and percentiles were calculated for hand grip strength in both hands, as a function of age and height categories. Results The 1900–1925 interval was chosen since there were no significant differences among hand grip data within that period. Results show that children attending the camps had dynamometry values in both hands well below the current ones, both with reference to their height and to their age. Conclusions Camp attendees displayed very low values of height and hand grip strength in both hands. Both are significantly lower than contemporary values, manifesting a secular effect.

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Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment for children

Abstract: SGNA is a valid tool for assessing nutritional status in children and identifying those at higher risk of nutrition-associated complications and prolonged hospitalizations.

Cited by 269 publications

References 32 publications

Is undernutrition prognostic of infection complications in children undergoing surgery? A systematic review

Is undernutrition prognostic of infection complications in children undergoing surgery? A systematic review

Paediatric Nutritional Screening, Assessment and Support

Hand grip strength in boys and girls from summer school camps in Spain, 1900–1925. A comparison with 21st century data

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