Concordance among methods of nutritional assessment in patients included on the waiting list for liver transplantation.
CONCLUSIONS: Malnutrition prevalence is high and prevalence estimates vary according the method used, with low concordance among methods. PNI-O and NRI are the most consistent methods to identify malnutrition in these patients.
PMID: 28549896 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Tags: J Epidemiol Source Type: research
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