![]() ![]() ![]() BMI seemed to underestimate the prevalence of malnutrition. The methods tested scored malnutrition at different frequencies. Screening and assessment of nutritional status should be integrated into clinical routine. Malnutrition seems to be a common diagnosis among hospitalised patients in Austria. ![]() Cancer patients had the worst nutritional status. Severe malnutrition was detected in 0.5% (BMI), 9.1% (PNRA), 5.2% (NRI) and 11.4% (INS) of the patients evaluated. ![]() Patients were variously diagnosed with moderate malnutrition: 9% (BMI), 42% (PNRA), 54.8% (NRI) and 30% (INS). The BMI showed 90.2% of the patients evaluated to have normal nutritional status, whereas the PNRA identified 48.9%, the NRI 40% and the INS 58.6% as well nourished. Four recommended methods, the Innsbruck nutrition score (INS), the Prideaux nutritional risk assessment (PNRA), the well established nutrition risk index (NRI), and the body mass index (BMI) were used to analyse nutritional status. In this study a comparison of four different methods for diagnosis of the nutritional status of patients admitted to a university hospital in Austria is presented.Ĭlinical data of 640 hospitalised patients were analysed in a prospective-descriptive study design. Despite intense clinical research, no commonly accepted diagnostic tool for assessment of nutritional status is yet available. ![]()
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