Key result
This review discusses the prognostic value of nutritional indices and their applicability to hospitalized patients in the context of diagnostic testing and decision analysis.
Population
hospitalized patients
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Review
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Nutritional indices may aid risk stratification in hospitalized patients; hypothesis-generating, requiring prospective validation before practice change.
This paper reviews the use of nutritional indices as predictors of clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients and discusses reasons for disagreement among available studies.
Dempsey et al. (1987) conducted a review in Nutritional or metabolic derangement. Nutritional indices was evaluated. This review discusses the prognostic value of nutritional indices and their applicability to hospitalized patients in the context of diagnostic testing and decision analysis.
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