Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of nutritional risk and malnutrition through the Nutrition Risk Screening, Nutrition Status Assessment, and Nutrition Support Action (NRASA) protocol. A total of 325 140 patients were screened, and 59 122 adults (19.31%) and 9154 children (48.38%) were considered to be "at nutritional risk." The prevalence of nutritional risk was 18.60% (306 220 patients) based on Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002), and 95.62% (2687 patients) by the Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short-Form (MNA-SF). Almost 67% of 23 805 adult patients were identified to be malnourished. The prevalence of malnutrition was 47.34% (6227 patients) based upon the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), 69.86% (2687 patients) by the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and 97.92% (7689 patients) by the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA). The NRASA protocol showed that the nutritional care process can be successfully implemented to confer adequate and timely nutritional therapy for malnourished patients.