IS THERE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GLIM AND THE NRS CRITERIA IN THE NUTRITIONAL DIAGNOSIS OF HOSPITALIZED SURGICAL PATIENTS? PILOT STUDY.

Background: There is no consensus on which nutritional diagnosis methods are most relevant in the hospital clinical practice.

Objective: This study investigated the agreement between the global leadership initiative on malnutrition (GLIM) criterion and the nutritional risk screening (NRS) instrument for the nutritional diagnosis of in-patients.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with 95 hospitalized surgical patients.