FNH 480 - Professional Dietetic Practice III

Here is a list of potentially useful Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) with their associated scope notes for searching in MEDLINE.

• Food-Drug Interactions - The pharmacological result, either desirable or undesirable, of drugs interacting with components of the diet.
• Nutritional Status - State of the body in relation to the consumption and utilization of nutrients.
• Malnutrition - An imbalanced nutritional status resulted from insufficient intake of nutrients to meet normal physiological requirement.
• Nutrition Disorders - Disorders caused by nutritional imbalance, either overnutrition or undernutrition.
• Health Status - The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.
• Risk Assessment - The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences.
• Risk Factors - An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
• Socioeconomic Factors - Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.
• Time Factors - Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations. e.g. daily use of supplement

Retrospective Chart Review

• Retrospective Studies [MeSH]
• exp Medical Records [MeSH]
• "chart review" [keyword]

Practice Standard

• Practice Guideline [MeSH publication type]
• Practice Guidelines as Topic [MeSH] - may be more useful
• Standards [Subheading to be used with topic]

Validated Screening Tool

• Nutritional Assessment [MeSH] - NT Nutrition Surveys (and even more NT Diet Survey)
• Questionnaires [MeSH] - NT Self Report [MeSH]
• Mass Screening [MeSH]
• “Reproducibility of Results” [MeSH]

Analysis of Existing Data

• Registries [MeSH]
• Databases, Factual [MeSH]
• "existing data" [keyword]