| ASPEN | American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition |
| ESPHAGAN | European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| CDC | Centres for Disease Control and Prevention |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| MUAC | Mid Upper Arm Circumference |
| WFH/L | Weight-for-height/length |
| HFA | Height-for-age |
| AUC | Area under the ROC curve |
| Se | Sensitivity |
| Sp | Specificity |
| NPV | Negative predictive value |
| PPV | Positive predictive value |
| SGNA | Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment |
| SGA | Subjective Global Assessment |
| PNST | Paediatric Nutrition Screening Tool |
| STAMP | Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Paediatrics |
| PYMS | Paediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score |
| SCAN | Nutrition Screening tool for childhood Cancer |
| PNSS | Pediatric Nutritional Screening Score |
| SANSI | St Andrews Healthcare Nutrition Screening Instrument |
| PG-SGA | Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment of nutritional status |
| CANSCORE | Clinical Assessment of Nutritional Status and the Score |
| PeDiSMART | Pediatric Digital Scaled MAlnutrition Risk screening Tool |
| PNRT | Paediatric Nutrition Rescreening Tool |
| iNEWS | Infant Early Nutrition Warning Score |
| SPENS | Simple PEdiatric Nutritional risk Screening tool |