Recording the exact weight and height should represent a standard practice for all inpatients, as they significantly impact on patients' care, drug dosing and nutritional assessment. However, these measurements are recorded in a small percentage of inpatients and, even worse, they often are estimated by nurses or Physicians, or self-reported by patients. This error may contribute to a wrong nutritional assessment, since the body mass index (BMI) is one of the parameters included in some of the most used nutritional scores. In this study the investigators will perform a nutritional assessement, at hospital admission, in a group of inpatients by the mini-nutritional assessment short form (MNA-SF), by means of estimated, self-reported and exact body weight measures. Moreover, in those subjects with a malnutrition diagnosis (by MNA-SF) the investigators will perform bioimpedence analysis and will evaluate a series of anthropometric measurements offering insights into body composition and distribution of fat and muscle, such as calf, waist and hip circumference.
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To assess the impact of discrepancies between estimated weight values reported in the medical record and those exactly measured
Timeframe: At admission
To assess the impact of discrepancies between estimated height values reported in the medical record and those exactly measured
Timeframe: At admission
Differences in MNA-SF scores
Timeframe: At admission