{"topic_id":"wsava_nutritional_assessment_checklist","category":"clinical-nutrition-guidelines","context":"---\ntopic_id: wsava_nutritional_assessment_checklist\ncategory: clinical-nutrition-guidelines\ntitle: WSAVA Nutritional Assessment Checklist (2013) — diet history, BCS/MCS and screening vs extended evaluation\nlang: en\nsource_file: pdf-raw/wsava/nutritional_assessment_checklist.txt\nsource: WSAVA (World Small Animal Veterinary Association) first-hand guideline PDF, pdftotext plain text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-22\nmodel: codebuddy\nbatch: P2-WSAVA-1\nverified: 2026-07-22 substring_match 15/15 claims passed\npath: clinical-nutrition-guidelines/wsava_nutritional_assessment_checklist/01_wsava_nutritional_assessment_checklist.md\n---\n\n## Verbatim source extracts\n\nThe following statements are reproduced verbatim from the first-hand WSAVA source document identified in `source_file`. They are provided as factual reference blocks for AI consumers; interpretive synthesis is left to the API user.\n\n- Nutritional Assessment Checklist\n- To be completed by the pet owner.\n- To be completed by the health care team:\n- Current body condition score* _____/9\n- Muscle Condition Score:\n- Screening evaluation checklist\n- Pets that are healthy and without risk factors need no additional extended evaluation\n- Nutritional screening risk factors (extended evaluation is OPTIONAL)\n- Nutritional screening risk factors (extended evaluation is MANDATORY)\n- Age of >7 years\n- Snacks, treats, table food > 10% of total calories\n- Unconventional diet (e.g., raw, homemade, vegetarian, unfamiliar)\n- Inadequate or inappropriate housing\n- Body condition score less than 4 or greater than 5 (on 9-pt scale)\n- World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) 2013\n\n## Notes\n\nWSAVA's Nutritional Assessment Checklist (© World Small Animal Veterinary Association 2013) structures the nutritional assessment into an owner-completed diet history and a health-care-team completion covering body condition score (BCS, /9) and muscle condition score (MCS, /5). The screening evaluation separates risk factors where extended evaluation is OPTIONAL from those where it is MANDATORY (e.g. history of altered gastrointestinal function, ongoing medical conditions, medications/supplements, unconventional diet, snacks/treats/table food > 10% of calories, inadequate housing, BCS <4 or >5 on the 9-point scale, muscle wasting).\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":378,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}