Table 5.
Comparison of four screening tools for malnutrition with ESPEN diagnostic criteria in cystic echinococcosis patients.
| Nutritional screening tools | Nutritional screening results | ESPEN criteria |
Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | Positive predictive value (%) | Negative predictive value (%) | Positive likelihood ratio (LR +) | Negative predictive value (LR −) | K value | AUC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malnourished | Not malnourished | ||||||||||
| NRS2002 | High risk (94) | 54 | 40 | 79.4 | 75.8 | 57.4 | 89.9 | 3.28 | 0.27 | 0.496 | 0.776 |
| No/low risk (139) | 14 | 125 | |||||||||
| MUST | High risk (120) | 62 | 58 | 91.1 | 64.8 | 51.7 | 94.6 | 2.59 | 0.14 | 0.457 | 0.780 |
| No/low risk (113) | 6 | 107 | |||||||||
| MNA-SF | High risk (109) | 61 | 48 | 89.7 | 70.9 | 55.9 | 94.3 | 3.08 | 0.14 | 0.515 | 0.803 |
| No/low risk (124) | 7 | 117 | |||||||||
| NRI | High risk (119) | 45 | 74 | 66.1 | 55,1 | 37.8 | 79.8 | 1.48 | 0.61 | 0.175 | 0.607 |
| No/low risk (114) | 23 | 91 | |||||||||
Abbreviations: NRS 2002, Nutritional Risk Screening 2002; MUST, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool; MNA-SF, Short Form of Mini Nutritional Assessment; NRI, nutrition risk index; ESPEN, European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism; AUC, area-under-the-curve from ROC.