[Mini Nutritional Assessment: a reproducibility study for the elderly]. / Mini Nutritional Assessment: une étude de reproductibilité en institution pour personnes âgées.

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), the most used scale for detecting undernutrition in clinical practice, has been validated in the hospital setting. We have evaluated its reproducibility in a French nursing home for dependent elderly people. It is globally acceptable, but some items should be more standardized.