Comparison of nutrition screening tools and calf circumference in estimating the preoperative prevalence of malnutrition among patients with aerodigestive tract cancers-a prospective observational cohort study.
Nivedhyaa SrinivasaraghavanMeenakshi V VenketeswaranKalpana BalakrishnanThendral RamasamyAishwarya RamakrishnanAjit AgarwalArvind KrishnamurthyPublished in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2022)
Thus, more than a quarter of patients with H&N and GI cancers are malnourished preoperatively. As the best agreement between the screening tools was for MUST-ESPEN and CC-ESPEN, either of them can be used to identify malnutrition at admission.