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A guide to completing the Mini Nutritional Assessment – Short Form

This resource is a guide and video for using the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) to identify malnutrition in older people. It explains question scoring, interpretation, and measurement procedures, with a video demonstration.

This resource was developed internationally and therefore its applicability and usefulness may be limited.

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A guide to completing the Mini Nutritional Assessment – Short Form
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