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Table 4 Follow up outcome after 1 month

From: Predicting clinical outcome of cardiac patients by six malnutrition screening tools

Malnutrition screening tool

Malnutrition prevalence

Follow up at 1 month

Follow up mortality

Features of infection

Readmission

MUST

 

Low risk

68

62 (91.2 %)

1 (1.6 %)

2 (3.2 %)

6 (9.7 %)

 

Medium risk

23

23 (100.0 %)

0 (0.0 %)

2 (8.7 %)

4 (17.4 %)

 

High risk

22

19 (86.4 %)

0 (0.0 %)

1 (5.3 %)

5 (26.3 %)

NRS

 

Normal

230

209 (90.8 %)

2 (1.0 %)

10 (4.8 %)

16 (7.7 %)

 

Mild

33

32 (97.0 %)

0 (0.0 %)

3 (9.4 %)

7 (21.9 %)

 

Moderate

132

121 (91.7 %)

4 (3.3 %)

4 (3.3 %)

14 (11.6 %)

 

Severe

131

113 (86.3 %)

3 (2.7 %)

2 (1.8 %)

16 (14.2 %)

MNA

 

Normal

160

152 (95.0 %)

1(0.7 %)

7 (4.6 %)

17 (11.2 %)

 

At risk of malnutrition

336

298 (88.7 %)

7 (2.3 %)

11 (3.7 %)

34 (11.4 %)

 

Malnourished

30

25 (83.3 %)

1 (4.0 %)

1 (4.0 %)

2 (8.0 %)

SNAQ

 

Well nourished

92

83 (90.2 %)

2 (2.4 %)

3 (3.6 %)

10 (12.0 %)

 

Moderately malnourished

6

6 (100.0 %)

0 (0.0 %)

1 (16.7 %)

1 (16.7 %)

 

Severely malnourished

21

19 (90.5 %)

0 (0.0 %)

1 (5.3 %)

4 (21.1 %)

MST

 

No risk of malnutrition

276

252 (91.3 %)

3 (1.2 %)

10 (4.0 %)

22 (8.7 %)

 

Risk of malnutrition

250

223 (89.2 %)

6 (2.7 %)

9 (4.0 %)

31 (13.9 %)

SGA

 

Well nourished

503

456 (90.7 %)

8 (1.8 %)

19 (4.2 %)

49 (10.7 %)

 

Moderately malnourished

22

19 (86.4 %)

1 (5.3 %)

0 (0.0 %)

4 (21.1 %)

 

Severely malnourished

1

0 (0.0 %)

0 (0.0 %)

0 (0.0 %)

0 (0.0 %)