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Nutrition and Diagnosis-Related
Care
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The physical exam and nutritional
status.
(Click here
for this part of the worksheet.)
Assessing fat stores
- Orbital fat pads
- Triceps skin fold
- Fat overlying lower ribs
- Record the score and transfer to
Box D on the first page.
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Muscle status
- Temporalis
- Clavicles
- Shoulders
- Interosseous muscles of the hands
- Scapula, thigh, calf
- Record the score and transfer to
Box D.
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Fluid status
- Ankle edema (ambulatory patient)
- Sacral edema (bedfast patient)
- Ascites (abdominal fluid)
- Record the score and transfer to
Box D.
Now for the total score. |
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