Your patient's weight is 80 lb and her ideal body weight is 120 lb. You would document that she has
a. mild undernutrition. c. severe undernutrition.
b. moderate undernutrition. d. morbid nutrition.
C
A weight under 90% of IBW is termed undernutrition. A weight between 80% and 90% of IBW is mild undernutrition, between 70% and 89% is moderate undernutrition, and below 70% is severe undernutrition. Your patient's weight of 80 lb is 67% of her ideal body weight of 120 lb. This is severe undernutrition because it is below 70%. There is no category called morbid nutrition.
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