Table 1.

The commonly used nutrition assessment tools.

	Composition	Assessment criteria
NRS2002	Disease score Nutritional status Age score	0~2: low nutritional risk >3:high nutritional risk, need nutrition intervention
MUST	BMI Weight loss Eating state	0: low nutritional risk 1: moderate nutritional risk 2: high nutritional risk, need nutrition intervention
MNA	Anthropometric assessment Global evaluation Dietetic evaluation Subjective assessment	≥24: normal 17–24: nutritional risk <17: malnutrition
PG-SGA	Weight loss Disease score Metabolic stress Physical examination Global assessment grading	A: normal B: nutritional risk C: severe malnutrition

NRS2002, nutritional risk screening 2002; MUST, malnutrition universal screening tool; MNA, mini nutrition assessment; PG-SGA, patient-generated subjective globe assessment; BMI, body mass index.