Comparison of Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 and Subjective Global Assessment Form as Short Nutrition Assessment Tools in Older Hospitalized Adults

The aim of the present study was to compare two widely recommended short nutrition assessment tools-Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and Subjective Global Assessment Form (SGA)-with other Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) measurements. The study included 622 consecutively hospitalized...

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Published in:Nutrients 2021-01, Vol.13 (1), p.225
Main Authors: Kroc, Łukasz, Fife, Elizaveta, Piechocka-Wochniak, Edyta, Sołtysik, Bartłomiej, Kostka, Tomasz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of daily living
Age
Anemia
Anthropometry
Cognitive ability
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Dementia
Disease
Frailty
Geriatrics
Hospital patients
Hospitalization
Malnutrition
Medical screening
NRS-2002
Nutrition
Nutrition assessment
Nutritional status
Older people
Patients
Population
Product/Service Evaluations
Risk assessment
SGA
Statistical analysis
Surveys
Variance analysis
VES-13
Womens health
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Summary:The aim of the present study was to compare two widely recommended short nutrition assessment tools-Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and Subjective Global Assessment Form (SGA)-with other Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) measurements. The study included 622 consecutively hospitalized older subjects, aged 81.7 ± 7.8 years. The criteria to participate were the ability to communicate and given consent. Both NRS-2002 and SGA were inversely related to anthropometric measurements, functional assessment tests, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and positively associated with the Vulnerable Elders Survey-13 (VES-13) score. Results of SGA and NRS-2002 were not related to sex and 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score. Comparison of well-nourished subjects and patients with suggested problems with nutrition according to NRS-2002 (0-2 vs. 3-7) and SGA (A vs. B + C) gave comparable results. Both nutritional scales at given cut-off points similarly discriminated anthropometric data and other CGA tools in the populations of well-nourished vs. malnourished hospitalized older subjects. In conclusion, we can recommend using both NRS-2002 and SGA to detect malnutrition or risk of malnutrition in a routine clinical practice of the geriatric department ward.
ISSN:2072-6643
2072-6643
DOI:10.3390/nu13010225