Table 3.
Performance of six nutritional screening tools in detecting the risk of malnutrition according to GLIM criteria
| Nutritional screening tools | AUC (95%CI) | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | LR ( +) (%) | LR ( – ) (%) | PPV (%) | NPV (%) | Accuracy | Cohen κ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MST | 0.905(0.880–0.930)* | 83.0 | 85.1 | 5.6 | 0.2 | 61.0 | 94.7 | 84.6 | 60.2* |
| MUST | 0.874(0.838–0.909)* | 87.1 | 86.6 | 6.5 | 0.1 | 64.6 | 95.9 | 86.7 | 65.5* |
| SNAQ | 0.851(0.814–0.889)* | 85.0 | 85.2 | 5.8 | 0.2 | 61.9 | 95.3 | 85.2 | 62.0* |
| MNA-SF | 0.842(0.800–0.885)* | 76.9 | 91.6 | 9.1 | 0.3 | 71.9 | 93.4 | 88.3 | 66.8* |
| NRS-2002 | 0.790(0.743–0.837)* | 70.1 | 87.9 | 5.8 | 0.3 | 62.0 | 91.3 | 84.0 | 55.4* |
| GMS | 0.820(0.785–0.855)* | 92.5 | 71.5 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 47.7 | 97.1 | 76.1 | 47.8* |
AUC Area Under the Curve. LR ( +) Positive Likelihood Ratio. LR ( – ) Negative Likelihood Ratio. PPV Pozitive Predictive Value. NPV Negative Predictive value. MST Malnutrition Screening Tool. MUST Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool. SNAQ Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire. MNA-SF Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form. NRS-2002 Nutritional Risk Screening-2002. GMS Graz Malnutrition Screening Tool
*p < 0.001