TY - JOUR AU - Hailemariam, Hailu AU - Singh, Pragya AU - Fekadu, Tigist PY - 2016 DA - 2016/02/09 TI - Evaluation of mini nutrition assessment (MNA) tool among community dwelling elderly in urban community of Hawassa city, Southern Ethiopia JO - BMC Nutrition SP - 11 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - Mini nutrition assessment (MNA) was found to be the most extensively evaluated method of nutritional assessment for geriatrics settings even if there is no gold standard method to assess nutritional status of elderly. However, MNA has not been validated among Ethiopian elderly. Therefore, the present study examined whether full MNA can identify malnutrition and risk of malnutrition in elderly population living in urban community of Hawassa city, Southern Ethiopia. SN - 2055-0928 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-016-0050-1 DO - 10.1186/s40795-016-0050-1 ID - Hailemariam2016 ER -