The association between nutritional adequacy and 28-day mortality in the critically ill is not modified by their baseline nutritional status and disease severity.
Charles Chin Han LewGabriel Jun Yung WongKa Po CheungRobert J L FraserAi Ping ChuaMary Foong Fong ChongMichelle MillerPublished in: Critical care (London, England) (2019)
Combining baseline nutritional status and disease severity in a prognostic model could accurately predict 28-day mortality. However, the association between the dose of nutrition support during the first 6 days of ENS and 28-day mortality was independent of baseline disease severity and nutritional status.