This article describes a study which aimed to assessed nutrition screening adequacy and investigated factors associated with missed opportunity to diagnose malnutrition. The researchers assessed demographic data and performed univariate analysis of factors responsible for missed nutritional screening. This study indicates common associations that might explain low inpatient screening rates for malnutrition, including apparently adequate nutritional status, lower staff to patient ratios and outlier ward locations.

Yogesh Sharma - Consultant Physician, Department of General Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia and Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Flinders University, South Australia

Michelle Miller - Professor, Nutrition & Dietetics Department, Flinders University, South Australia

Rashmi Shahi - Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Paul Hakendorf - Clinical Epidemiologist, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia

Chris Horwood - Clinical Epidemiologist, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia

Campbell Thompson - Professor of Medicine, Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, South Australia