Prediction of early- and long-term mortality in adult patients acutely admitted to internal medicine: NRS-2002 and beyond

• Published in: Clinical Nutrition Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 1092 - 1100
• Main Authors: Sanson, Gianfranco, Sadiraj, Marina, Barbin, Ilaria, Confezione, Christian, De Matteis, Daniela, Boscutti, Giuliano, Zaccari, Michele, Zanetti, Michela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Comorbidity; Comorbidity; Glasgow Prognostic Score; Malnutrition; Modified Early Warning Score; Norton scale; Nutritional Risk Screening 2002; Nutrition and Dietetics; Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine; creatinine; Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine; death; elderly; Female; functional status; Geriatric Assessment; Glasgow Prognostic Score; Hospitalization; hospitals; Humans; Inflammation; Inpatients; Internal Medicine; Italy; Length of Stay; logit analysis; Male; Malnutrition; medicine; Modified Early Warning Score; mortality; Norton scale; Nutrition and Dietetic; Nutrition Assessment; nutrition risk assessment; Nutritional Risk Screening 2002; Nutritional Status; observational studies; patients; prediction; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; risk factors; screening; Severity of Illness Index; Modified Early Warning Score; Glasgow Prognostic Score; Norton scale; Malnutrition; Nutritional Risk Screening 2002; Comorbidity

In hospitalized patients malnutrition is a risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes. The Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) represents a quick and simple tool to identify malnutrition risk in this population. No study tested the predictive power of NRS-2002 on mortality adjusting for confou...