The MNA as a screening and assessment tool is easy to use to determine the nutrition status in multimorbid geriatric patients with PU. Further studies are needed to show an improved outcome of PU healing if evaluation of nutrition status is part of routine clinical practice in multimorbid elderly risk patients within the first day after admission.
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