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Nutrition Support Clinician Exam Prep

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An effective nutrition screening program:
  1. Involves all members of the health care team who want to participate
  2. Is based on the principles of sensitivity and specificity
  3. Always uses food frequency questionnaires
  4. Is used only to screen for childhood diseases
Explanation
Answer: B - An effective nutrition screening program is based on the principles of sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity helps ensure that a nutrition screening program picks up individuals at nutritional risk, while specificity helps to exclude individuals not at nutritional risk. Nutrition screening programs may use different types of tools to collect dietary information, and are used in populations of all ages, not just children.
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