Screening Nutritional Status of Hospitalized Patients

Screening Nutritional Status of Hospitalized Patients With Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 and Subjective Global Assessment Tools

This study investigated the results of the nutritional status of hospitalized patients with Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) screening and compared the effects of two screening method in predicting malnutrition.

In the cross-sectional study demographic data, body mass index (BMI), length of hospital stay (LOS), and cause of hospitalization of hospitalized patients were recorded. For the nutritional assessment all patients were screened with NRS 2002 and SGA within the first days of admission to the patients. The primary predictors of interest in our study were the NRS 2002 and SGA results of patients.

Inclusion Criteria:

• ≥18 years old
• non-bed-dependent
• non-critİcal service patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• < 18 years old,
• hospitalized due to surgical operation,
• pregnant women,
• breastfeeding women,
• bed-dependent,
• suffered an advanced disease that required palliative care.