NUT620 Advanced Nutrition Assessment

[3–0, 3 cr.]

This course is grounded in the nutrition care process with emphasis on the components of nutritional assessment. It discusses the different subjective and objective nutrition assessment methods used in acute and chronic care as well as in community and population settings. Dietary assessment methods including 24hour recall, food record, food frequency questionnaires, and diet history are critiqued. Other methods germane to evaluating nutritional status are examined including clinical assessment (medical history and physical examination), anthropometric and body composition assessment, and biochemical assessment (laboratory values). Nutritional assessment methods are applied to evaluating nutritional status in both individual and population-based assessment. 

Prerequisite: NUT356 Nutrition Status Assessment