DETERMINE Nutritional Health Checklist
DETERMINE Nutritional Health Checklist: ten weighted yes/no risk items.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Illness
- Yes
- Few Meals
- Yes
- Few Fruit Veg
- No
- Alcohol
- No
- Tooth Mouth
- No
- Money
- No
- Eat Alone
- Yes
- Medications
- No
- Weight Change
- No
- Self Care
- No
Result: DETERMINE 6/21 — high nutritional risk.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- 0–2
- Good nutritional status.
- 3–5
- Moderate nutritional risk.
- ≥ 6
- High nutritional risk.
What you enter
- Illness
- Few Meals
- Few Fruit Veg
- Alcohol
- Tooth Mouth
- Money
- Eat Alone
- Medications
- Weight Change
- Self Care
How this is calculated
Posner BM, Jette AM, Smith KW, Miller DR. Nutrition and health risks in the elderly: the nutrition screening initiative. Am J Public Health. 1993;83(7):972-978. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.