Comparison of four different nutritional risk screening tools in hospitalized children

ABSTRACT Objective: Early detection of malnutrition risk in hospitalized children can improve health outcomes and quality life; however, the number studies where pediatric screening tool is appropriate for Turkish limited. Therefore, this article aims to determine prevalence patients evaluated with Screening Tool Risk on Nutritional Status Growth, Assessment Malnutrition Pediatrics, Pediatric Yorkhill Score, Simple Nutrition original adjusted cutoffs evaluate which children. Methods: In cross-sectional study, four published nutritional tools (Screening Tool) were applied inpatients (n=604) aged 1 month 17 years, admitted a ward at least 24 hours. Results: had greatest recognition rate (94.2%) acute malnutrition. Having high by Score was associated an increased (OR: 6.57 5.84 20.35 Score) chronic 1.27 3.28 1.72 Score). Classifying at-risk category related raised odds 2.64 5.24 cutoffs). This positive association also observed 4.07 cutoffs, 28.01 cutoffs) 1.14 1.67 Conclusion: have higher diagnostic accuracy than other assessing status detecting children, particularly