UNASSIGNED: Despite the significant impact of @entity3147 in hospitalised @entity1 , it is often not identified by clinical staff in daily practice. To improve nutritional support in hospitals, standardised routine nutritional screening is essential. The Graz Malnutrition Screening (GMS) tool was developed for the purpose of @entity3147 risk screening in a large hospital setting involving different departments. It was the aim of the present study to validate the GMS against Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS) and Mini Nutritional Assessment-short form (MNA-sf) in a randomised blinded manner. A total of 404 randomly selected @entity1 admitted to the internal, surgical and orthopaedic wards of the University Hospital Graz were screened in a blinded manner by different raters. Concurrent validity was determined by comparing the GMS with the NRS and in older @entity1 (70+ years) with the MNA-sf additionally. According to GMS, 31  9 or 28  5 % of the admitted @entity1 were categorised as at 'risk of @entity3147 ' (depending on the rater). According to the reference standard of NRS, 24  5 % of the @entity1 suffered from @entity3147 . Pearson's r values of 0  78 compared with the NRS and 0  84 compared with the MNA showed strong positive correlations. Results of accuracy (0  85), sensitivity (0  94), specificity (0  77), positive predictive value (0  76) and negative predictive value (0  95) of GMS were also very high. Cohen's k for internal consistency of the GMS was 0  82. GMS proves to be a valid and reliable instrument for the detection of @entity3147 in adult @entity1 in acute-care hospitals.

The Graz Malnutrition Screening (GMS): a new hospital screening tool for XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity3147 :: ('MESH:D044342', 'Disease') :: ['malnutrition']
@entity3147 :: (MESH:D044342,Disease) :: ['malnutrition']
