Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Paediatrics is a validated nutrition screening tool for use in hospitalised children from 2 weeks to 16 years of age. 1,2
STAMP is a simple 5-step tool that was developed by a team from Royal Manchester Children’s Hospitals and the University of Ulster, the lead investigator being Helen McCarthy, former Lecturer and Honorary Paediatric Dietitian.
...recommend the use of nutritional screening in hospitalised children to identify those patients that are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. 3,4