Lesson 4 : Clinical Assessment of Nutritional Status
Rapid clinical surveys
These are designed to detect the most characteristic signs of one or several nutritional deficiencies. They are of most value when the plane of community nutrition is low. They can be carried out by medical staff or by paramedical personnel, who have been specially selected and trained and are working under the supervision of a competent nutritionist. The data collected should be recorded on a special record form which lists the signs that are considered to be both particularly characteristic and easily identifiable during a field survey.
Rapid clinical survey include a.
A simple schedule -which elicit information about some of the important clinical symptoms, as shown below.
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