Table 6.
Comparison of four screening tools for malnutrition with ESPEN diagnostic criteria in alveolar 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 (50) | 35 | 15 | 68.6 | 86.6 | 70.0 | 85.8 | 5.12 | 0.36 | 0.555 | 0.776 |
| No/low risk (113) | 16 | 97 | |||||||||
| MUST | High risk (83) | 43 | 29 | 84.3 | 74.1 | 59.7 | 91.2 | 3.26 | 0.21 | 0.525 | 0.757 |
| No/low risk (80) | 8 | 83 | |||||||||
| MNA-SF | High risk (72) | 44 | 39 | 86.2 | 65.1 | 53.0 | 91.2 | 2.48 | 0.21 | 0.439 | 0.792 |
| No/low risk (91) | 7 | 73 | |||||||||
| NRI | High risk (110) | 43 | 67 | 84.3 | 40.2 | 39.1 | 84.9 | 1.41 | 0.39 | 0.186 | 0.622 |
| No/low risk (53) | 8 | 45 | |||||||||
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.