Nutritional risk screening of hospitalized children aged < 3 years.

Background: Identification of children at risk of malnutrition is not easily achieved in hospital settings.

Aims: To assess the merits of using the Screening Tool for Risk on Nutritional status and Growth (STRONG) as a nutrition screening tool in hospitalized children aged < 3 years and correlate it with the severity of their nutritional derangements.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 500 children aged < 3 years admitted to the Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.