Nutritional Assessment

Sauberlich HE, Dowdy RP, Skala JH. Laboratory Tests for the Assessment of Nutrition Status . Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press 1999. New edition of a classic technical work with detailed descriptions of biochemical and other laboratory tests for assessment of global nutrition and most individual nutrients.
Lee RD, Nieman DC. Nutritional Assessment . Madison WI: Brown and Benchmark, 1993.
Jelliffe DB, Jelliffe EFP. Community Nutritional Assessment . New York: Oxford University Press, 1989 new ed?) Derrick and Patrice Jelliffe were famous for work on breast-feeding and community nutritional assessment especially in developing countries.
Lo CW, Laboratory Assessment of Nutritional Status, in Walker WA and Watkins JB, eds. Nutrition in Pediatrics , 2nd ed., BC Decker, Hamilton, Ontario, 1996. Detailed book chapter in the most comprehensive medical textbook on pediatric nutrition. 158 references.
Hubbard VS and Hubbard LR, Clinical Assessment of Nutritional Status, in Walker WA and Watkins JB, eds. Nutrition in Pediatrics , 2nd ed., BC Decker, Hamilton, Ontario, 1996.

Jeejeebhoy KN. Nutritional assessment. Nutrition 16: 585-589, 2000 and Jeejeebhoy K, Nutritional Assessment, Gastroenterol Clin N Amer 1998: 27:347-369. (85 ref.) Recent clinical reviews of subjective global clinical nutritional assessment, functional tests of nutritional status, and more sophisticated measures of body composition.
Hensrud DD. Nutrition screening and assessment. Med Clin North Am 1999;83:1525-1546.
Omran ML, Morley JE. Assessment of protein energy malnutrition in older persons, part I and II. Nutrition 2000;16:50 and 131.

Baker JP, et al. Nutritional assessment: a comparison of clinical judgement and objective measurements. N Engl J Med 1982; 306:969. One of the classic papers describing how careful subjective global clinical assessment can be more valuable than any single objective laboratory assessment of nutrition.
Veterans Affairs Total Parenteral Nutrition Cooperative Study Group. Perioperative total parenteral nutrition in surgical patients, N Engl J Med 1991: 325:525-532. A famous large multicenter randomized control trial which failed to show the benefit of preoperative total parenteral nutrition except for moderately or severely malnourished patients.
Mitchell DC, Smicklas-Wright H, Friedmann JM, Jensen G. Dietary intake assessed by the Nutrition Screening Initiative Level II Screen is a sensitive but not a specific indicator of nutritional risk in older adults. JADA 2002;102:842-4.

Harris JA, Benedict TG. Biometric Studies of Basal Metabolism in Man. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 279, Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1919. One of a series of classic monographs on the development of the Harris-Benedict equation for predicting basal metabolic rate in normal humans on the basis of age, height, weight and gender.
Bistrian BR, Blackburn GL, Hallowell E, Heddle R. Protein status of general surgical patients. JAMA 1974; 230:858. One of a number of classic papers which led to the formation of nutrition support services to diagnose widespread hospital malnutrition and treat with enteral or parenteral nutrition.