Use of modified-NUTRIC score to assess nutritional risk in surgical intensive care unit.

Background: Modified Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill (m-NUTRIC) score is used to evaluate the nutritional risk of patients in intensive care units (ICUs). This study aimed to investigate whether m-NUTRIC can be used as a predictive factor related to the outcome of patients in surgical ICU (SICU) and to identify which patients will benefit from aggressive nutritional intervention according to the results of m-NUTRIC score.

Methods: A total of 205 patients who were admitted to surgical ICU (SICU) with ventilator use for more than 24 hours were enrolled.