Applicability of five nutritional screening tools in Chinese patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To identify the most appropriate nutritional risk screening tool for patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery, five nutritional screening tools, including the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002), Short Form of Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA-SF), Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) and Nutritional Risk Index (NRI), were employed to evaluate the nutritional risk at admission and short-term clinical outcome prediction.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Setting: A comprehensive affiliated hospital of a university in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.