Department of Clinical Nutrition, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, #1 Shuai Fu Yuan, Beijing, 100730, Dongcheng District, China.
BMC Cancer. 2022 Jan 6;22(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s12885-021-09135-2.
Malnutrition is common in cancer patients. The NUTRISCORE is a newly developed cancer-specific nutritional screening tool and was validated by comparison with the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) and Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) in Spain. We aimed to evaluate the performance of the NUTRISCORE, MST, and PG-SGA in estimating the risk of malnutrition in Chinese cancer patients.
Data from an open parallel and multicenter cross-sectional study in 29 clinical teaching hospitals in 14 Chinese cities were used. Cancer patients were assessed for malnutrition using the PG-SGA, NUTRISCORE, and MST. The sensitivity, specificity, and areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve were estimated for the NUTRISCORE and MST using the PG-SGA as a reference.
A total of 1000 cancer patients were included. The mean age was 55.9 (19 to 92 years), and 47.5% were male. Of these patients, 450 (45.0%) had PG-SGA B and C, 29 (2.9%) had a NUTRISCORE ≥5, and 367 (36.7%) had an MST ≥ 2. Using the PG-SGA as a reference, the sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve values of the NUTRISCORE were found to be 6.2, 99.8%, and 0.53, respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve values of the MST were 50.9, 74.9%, and 0.63, respectively. The kappa index between the NUTRISCORE and PG-SGA was 0.066, and that between the MST and PG-SGA was 0.262 (P < 0.05).
The NUTRISCORE had an extremely low sensitivity in cancer patients in China compared with the MST when the PG-SGA was used as a reference.
营养不良在癌症患者中很常见。NUTRISCORE 是一种新开发的癌症特异性营养筛查工具,已在西班牙通过与患者主观整体评估(PG-SGA)和营养不良筛查工具(MST)进行比较得到验证。我们旨在评估 NUTRISCORE、MST 和 PG-SGA 在评估中国癌症患者营养不良风险中的表现。
使用来自中国 14 个城市的 29 家临床教学医院的一项开放平行多中心横断面研究的数据。使用 PG-SGA、NUTRISCORE 和 MST 对癌症患者进行营养不良评估。使用 PG-SGA 作为参考,估计 NUTRISCORE 和 MST 的敏感性、特异性和受试者工作特征曲线下面积。
共纳入 1000 例癌症患者。平均年龄为 55.9(19 至 92 岁),47.5%为男性。其中,450 例(45.0%)患者 PG-SGA 为 B 和 C,29 例(2.9%)患者 NUTRISCORE≥5,367 例(36.7%)患者 MST≥2。以 PG-SGA 为参考,NUTRISCORE 的敏感性、特异性和曲线下面积值分别为 6.2%、99.8%和 0.53。MST 的敏感性、特异性和曲线下面积值分别为 50.9%、74.9%和 0.63。NUTRISCORE 与 PG-SGA 之间的 Kappa 指数为 0.066,MST 与 PG-SGA 之间的 Kappa 指数为 0.262(P<0.05)。
与 MST 相比,以 PG-SGA 为参考时,NUTRISCORE 在我国癌症患者中的敏感性极低。