Tinjauan Literatur Malnutrisi Didapat di Rumah Sakit: Karakteristik Anak dan Alat Skrining yang Digunakan

This article aimed of child’s characteristic of hospital acquired malnutrition (HAMs) that need to used screening tool to early detect of that risk. This review articles sourced from online database with the keywords child, pediatric, malnutrition, malnourished, hospital or hospital acquire and screening tool were taken from 2014 to 2019.This review discussed 3 subtopics were: (1) Hospital acquired malnutrition, (2) The characteristics of child with hospital acquired malnutrition, and (3) Instrument of malnutrition assessment in hospitals. Based on 3 subtopics, several factors are found that can make increased of hospital acquired malnutrition in child and a few screening tools that used. Screening tools that are appropriate to the hospital environment and the characteristics of children to be able to assess the nutritional malnutrition properly.
Keywords: hospital acquired malnutrition; hospitalization; child; screening tool