%0 Journal Article %A SHUN-WEN HSUEH %A KENG-HAO LIU %A CHIA-YEN HUNG %A CHUN-YI TSAI %A JUN-TE HSU %A NGAN-MING TSANG %A WILLIAM HARRISON HSUEH %A CHIEH YANG %A WEN-CHI CHOU %T Predicting Postoperative Events in Patients With Gastric Cancer: A Comparison of Five Nutrition Assessment Tools %D 2020 %R 10.21873/invivo.12106 %J In Vivo %P 2803-2809 %V 34 %N 5 %X Background/Aim: We compared the adequacy of five nutrition assessment tools with respect to their predictive value in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer (GC) receiving radical surgery. Patients and Methods: Five nutrition assessment tools–Glasgow prognostic score (GPS), malnutritional universal screening tool (MUST), nutritional risk screening, patient generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA), and prognostic nutritional index (PNI)–were assessed preoperatively for stage III GC patients. The correlation between postoperative events and nutritional status was further analyzed. Results: Most of the nutritional tools accurately predicted length of hospital stay and grade 3 or higher surgical complications, while only the GPS correlated with 30-day readmission and surgical complications. The PG-SGA performed the poorest among the five tools and failed to predict any postoperative event. Conclusion: The application of GPS is recommended as a prognostic index for patients with locally advanced GC prior to radical surgery. %U https://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/invivo/34/5/2803.full.pdf