Table 3.

Comparative analysis of the discrimination of each malnutritional indices for clinical worsening

Comparison	△AUC	P value	cNRI	P value	IDI	P value
CONUT vs. GNRI	0.059	< 0.001	0.342 (0.149, 0.535)	< 0.001	0.054 (0.025, 0.084)	< 0.001
CONUT vs. PNI	0.095	< 0.001	0.422 (0.230, 0.613)	< 0.001	0.071 (0.045, 0.097)	< 0.001
GNRI vs. PNI	0.036	0.077	0.201 (0.007, 0.395)	0.042	0.017 (0.002, 0.031)	0.025

△AUC the difference of area under curve, CI confidence interval, cNRI continuous net reclassification improvement, CONUT controlling nutritional status, GNRI geriatric nutritional risk index, IDI integrated discrimination improvement, PNI prognostic nutritional index