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Feasibility of implementing routine nutritional screening for older adults in Australian general practices: a mixed-methods study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Primary Care, November 2014
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Title
Feasibility of implementing routine nutritional screening for older adults in Australian general practices: a mixed-methods study
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BMC Primary Care, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12875-014-0186-5
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Aliza Haslinda Hamirudin, Karen Charlton, Karen Walton, Andrew Bonney, Jan Potter, Marianna Milosavljevic, Adam Hodgkins, George Albert, Abhijeet Ghosh, Andrew Dalley

Abstract

BackgroundNutrition screening in older adults is not routinely performed in Australian primary care settings. Low awareness of the extent of malnutrition in this patient group, lack of training and time constraints are major barriers that practice staff face. This study aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of including a validated nutrition screening tool and accompanying nutrition resource kit for use with older patients attending general practice. Secondary aims were to assess nutrition-related knowledge of staff and to identify the extent of malnutrition in this patient group.MethodsNine general practitioners, two general practice registrars and 11 practice nurses from three participating general practices in a rural, regional and metropolitan area within a local health district of New South Wales, Australia were recruited by convenience sampling.Individual in-depth interviews, open-ended questionnaires and an 11-item knowledge questionnaire were completed three months following in-practice group workshops on the Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF). Staff were encouraged to complete the MNA-SF within the Medicare-funded 75+ Health Assessment within this time period. Staff interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically using qualitative analysis software QSR NVivo 10.ResultsFour key themes were determined regarding the feasibility of performing MNA ¿SF: ease of use; incorporation into existing practice; benefit to patients¿ health; and patients¿ perception of MNA-SF. Two key themes related to the nutrition resource kit: applicability and improvement. These findings were supported by open ended questionnaire responses. Knowledge scores of staff significantly improved from baseline (52% to 66%; P <¿0.05). Of the 143 patients that had been screened, 4.2% (n =¿6) were classified as malnourished, 26.6% (n =¿38) `at risk¿ of malnutrition and 69.2% (n =¿99) as well-nourished.ConclusionIt is feasible to include the MNA-SF and a nutrition resource kit within routine general practice, but further refinement of patients¿ electronic clinical records in general practice software would streamline this process.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 92 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 15%
Researcher 13 14%
Student > Master 13 14%
Student > Bachelor 10 11%
Other 5 5%
Other 18 19%
Unknown 20 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 30 32%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 19%
Social Sciences 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Psychology 4 4%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 22 24%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 June 2015.
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#1,608,445
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Primary Care
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