Do Subjective Global Assessment and Nutritional Risk Index nutrition tests predict malnutrition and postoperative complications in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery?
Subjective Global Assessment and Nutritional Risk Index are useful tools for predicting malnutrition and postoperative complications in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.
Malnutrition is a marker of bad outcomes. Both Subjective Global Assessment and Nutritional Risk Index nutrition tests are predictive for malnutrition and postoperative complications in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.
Sungurtekin et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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