ArticleNutrients2020
Validation of Malnutrition Screening Tools in Liver Cirrhosis.
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- Malnutrition, Frailty, and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis: 2021 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) · 2021Guideline
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- Nutritional aspects of prehabilitation in adults with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplant.Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) · 2025Review
- Comparison of the Effectiveness of Nutritional Risk Score-2002 and Royal Free Hospital-Nutritional Prioritizing Tool Nutrition Screening Tools in Liver Cirrhosis.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Research progress on nutritional support for patients with liver cirrhosis complicated by upper gastrointestinal bleeding.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
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- Falls and malnutrition are associated with in-hospital mortality in patients with cirrhosis.Hepatology communications · 2024Article
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- Value of the controlling nutritional status score and psoas muscle thickness per height in predicting prognosis in liver transplantation.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
- Malnutrition in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Visceral Adiposity Associates With Malnutrition Risk Determined by Royal Free Hospital-Nutritional Prioritizing Tool in Cirrhosis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Residual clinical damage after COVID-19: A retrospective and prospective observational cohort study.PloS one · 2020Observational
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Abstract
Malnutrition in liver cirrhosis is frequently underestimated. To determine if a patient is at risk of malnutrition, several screening tools have been established. However, most of them are not validated for patients with liver cirrhosis. Therefore, we compared the RFH-NPT (Royal Free Hospital Nutritional Prioritizing Tool) as the validated gold standard for malnutrition screening in cirrhosis patients with GMS (Graz Malnutrition Screening), NRS-2002 (Nutritional Risk Screening) and MNA-SF (Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form). Based on common validity criteria for screening tools, only the MNA-SF showed fair correlation (12/15 points) with the RFH-NPT, whereas NRS-2002 and GMS performed worse (6/15 points). Taken together, our results suggest that NRS-2002 and GMS are not suitable for screening of malnutrition in cirrhosis patients. A cirrhosis-specific screening tool like RFH-NPT should be used to assess malnutrition and to identify those at risk of malnutrition.
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