Open AccessAssociation Between Nutritional Risk Screening Score and Prognosis of Patients with Sepsis
Author(s) -
Qiqing Gao,
Yao Cheng,
Zhuohong Li,
Qingyun Tang,
Rong Qiu,
Sanjun Cai,
Xuwen Xu,
Jie Peng,
Hui Xie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
infection and drug resistance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.033
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1178-6973
DOI - 10.2147/idr.s321385
Subject(s) - medicine , sepsis , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , univariate analysis , confidence interval , multivariate analysis , body mass index
Malnutrition is one of the most critical factors affecting patients' risk of infection and length of stay, and it may affect the prognosis of patients with sepsis. There have been no studies that have applied nutritional risk screening tools to stratify patients with sepsis according to prognosis.