Modified NUTRIC Score and Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients: a Meta-Analysis

Abstract

It’s important for critically ill patients to have a nutritional screening, assessment and monitoring as a part of full clinical assessment in critically ill patients to decrease mortality, morbidity and hospital costs. Nutritional screening should be done in the first day of admission or as soon as possible when the critically ill patients became haemodynamic stable. Most of nutrition screening tools before mNUTRIC score were not suitable for critically ill patients because malnutrition in ICU linked with inflammation and hypermetabolic state and the previous tools didn’t include these important two main cause for the pathology of malnutrition. So mNUTRIC score is considered the first validated specific nutrional screening in critically ill patients.