| ASPEN | American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| DRM | disease-related malnutrition |
| NRS | Nutritional Risk Score |
| PICU | Pediatric Intensive Care Unit |
| PNRS | Pediatric Nutritional Risk Score |
| PYMS | Pediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Screening |
| SGNA | Subjective Global Nutrition Assessment |
| STAMP | Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics |
| Strongkids | Screening Tool for Risk On Nutritional status and Growth |
| WFA | Weight for Age |
| WFH | weight-for-height |
| WHO | World Health Organization |