Developing and Validating a Renal Nutrition Screening Tool to Effectively Identify Undernutrition Risk Among Renal Inpatients.

Objective: To develop and validate a nutrition screening tool that is effective to recognize renal inpatients at risk of undernutrition.

Design: A prospective, criterion validation.

Subjects: Adults admitted to a hospital ward with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and dialysis regardless of gender or ethnicity (n = 122) were recruited.