Clinical nutrition : official journal of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Identifying critically-ill patients who will benefit most from nutritional therapy: Further validation of the "modified NUTRIC" nutritional risk assessment tool.
Better tools are needed to assist in the identification of critically ill patients most likely to benefit from artificial nutrition therapy. Recently, the Nutrition Risk in Critically ill (NUTRIC) score has been developed for such purpose. The objective of this study was to externally validate a modified version of the NUTRIC score in a second database. ⋯ The NUTRIC scoring system is externally validated and may be useful in identifying critically ill patients most likely to benefit from optimal amounts of macronutrients when considering mortality as an outcome.