Endocrinología y nutrición : órgano de la Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición
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Comparative Study
[Screening of the nutritional risk in elderly hospitalized patients with different tools].
Nutritional assessment in the elderly is difficult and different from that performed in younger people. There are specific tools for that purpose, such as the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI). The study objective was to compare this index to the Nutritional Risk Index (NRI). ⋯ In hospitalized elderly patients, NRI is a better predictor of complications and may be more appropriate for assessing the risk of death than GNRI. GNRI underestimated nutritional risk as compared to NRI.