Table 2.

Diagnostic value of the nutritional screening tools compared with the Royal Free Hospital-Global Assessment (RFH-GA)^*

(Percentages)

Screening tools	Malnutrition risk (%)	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	P
LDUST	70·3	69	10	0·082
RFH-NPT	63·2	64·8	60	0·085
MUST	38·1	38·6	70	0·091
NRS-2002	51·0	52·4	70	0·089

LDUST, Liver Disease Undernutrition Screening Tool; MUST, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool; NRS-2002, Nutritional Risk Screening 2002.

^*Malnutrition prevalence as assessed by the reference method (RFH-GA) was 69·5 %.