Agreement between Graz Malnutrition Screening (GMS) with subjective nutritional assessment instruments in hospitalized patients.

Background: it is essential for an early nutritional intervention that utilizes effective and practical nutritional screening and evaluation tools to diagnose nutritional status, increasing the patient's survival.

Objective: to evaluate the agreement of the Graz Malnutrition Screening (GMS) with subjective methods of nutritional evaluation in hospitalized patients.

Methods: descriptive cross-sectional study with adults and elderly of both sexes evaluated within 48 hours of hospital admission.