Is there agreement between the glim and the nrs criteria in the nutritional diagnosis of hospitalized surgical patients? Pilot study

HIGHLIGHTS

• This study suggests the use of the NRS and the GLIM criteria for the nutritional diagnosis of hospitalized surgical patients, especially patients with vascular diseases and digestive neoplasms.
• The two methods are concordant for the result of nutritional risk or malnutrition.
• The GLIM criterion identified a lower percentage of patients with malnutrition in relation to the diagnosis of malnutrition by the NRS.

 

AUTORES

STOPIGLIA, Larissa Silveira LEANDRO-MERHI, Vânia Aparecida