Subjective Global Assessment

There are several approaches and methods to conducting a nutrition assessment, but one approach that has been validated is the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA).1 Application of the SGA requires gathering the data just listed and assessing these parameters (i.e., weight change, change in diet, GI symptoms, functional capacity, and physical examination)... 

Goal calorie and protein requirements Perform a subjective global assessment Take into consideration the patient s current clinical status, diagnoses, medications, etc. Total daily calories -25-30 kcal/kg per day, or -1 500-1 800 kcal/day Protein -1.5-2 g/kg per day of ideal body weight (-89-11 8 g protein/day) This patient has sepsis, diffuse peritonitis, and recent surgical procedures, target -1800 kcal/day and -11 0 g protein/day... 

Nutritional screening is recommended in dialysis patients.Such screening may involve subjective global assessment, measurement of the body mass index, a recent... 

Predialysis serum albumin Percentage of usual postdialysis or postdrain body weight Subjective global assessment Protein equivalent of total nitrogen appearance (PNA) ... 

Stephenson GR, et al. Malnutrition in hver transplant patients Preoperative subjective global assessment is predictive of outcome after hver transplantation. Transplantation 2001 72 666-670. 

Enrollees were asked to submit to a series of performance and health effects measures. Tests included the Global Assessment System for Humans/ Behavioral Assessment and Research System (GASH/BARS), the Postural Sway Test, the Eye Blink Conditioned Response Test and the Electroretino-gram (ERG). Subjects were also asked complete an electronically administered questionnaire. Medical records were reviewed for pertinent health events occurring during the preceding year. 

The 14 PSR safety factors have been selected on the basis of States experience. These 14 safety factors are divided into five subject areas to facilitate the review. In addition, there is a global assessment to integrate the results of the review of individual safety factors. 

Efficacy. A relative concept referring to the ability of a medicine to elicit a beneficial clinical effect. This may be measured or evaluated using objective or subjective parameters, and in terms ranging form global impressions to highly precise measurements. Efficacy is assessed at one or more levels of organization (e.g., subcellular, cellular, tissue, organ, whole body) and may be extrapolated to other levels. 

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