Comparison of Various Nutritional Screening Methods in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery

Authors

  • Panwadee Putwatana Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital and Medical School, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
  • Pinmanee Reodecha Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital and Medical School, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
  • Yupapin Sirapo-ngam Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital and Medical School, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
  • Panuwat Lertsithichai Medical Statistics, Department of Surgery,Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital and Medical School, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Abstract

Objective: To compare the following nutritional screening methods - the serum albumin and serum prealbumin levels, the Short Form Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA-SF), the Nutrition Risk Classification (NRC), the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST), the Nutrition Risk Score (NRS) and the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) in the prediction of postoperative infectious and wound complications.

Patients and Methods: Nutritional assessment was performed on 103 patients undergoing major abdominal surgery between November and December 2002. All patients were followed postoperatively for 30 days or till the occurrence of postoperative complications. The ability of the "at-risk" of malnutrition classification to predict postoperative complications was measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for each method and compared.

Results and Conclusions: All nutritional screening methods were capable of predicting postoperative complications reasonably well (ROC area between 0.65 and 0.8) but the best predictor was the NRC (ROC area = 0.78).

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2003-06-30

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Putwatana P, Reodecha P, Sirapo-ngam Y, Lertsithichai P. Comparison of Various Nutritional Screening Methods in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery. Thai J Surg [Internet]. 2003 Jun. 30 [cited 2024 Apr. 20];24(2):45-50. Available from: https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ThaiJSurg/article/view/242956

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2003): April - June

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