TY - JOUR T1 - Predicting Postoperative Events in Patients With Gastric Cancer: A Comparison of Five Nutrition Assessment Tools JF - In Vivo JO - In Vivo SP - 2803 LP - 2809 DO - 10.21873/invivo.12106 VL - 34 IS - 5 AU - SHUN-WEN HSUEH AU - KENG-HAO LIU AU - CHIA-YEN HUNG AU - CHUN-YI TSAI AU - JUN-TE HSU AU - NGAN-MING TSANG AU - WILLIAM HARRISON HSUEH AU - CHIEH YANG AU - WEN-CHI CHOU Y1 - 2020/09/01 UR - http://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/34/5/2803.abstract N2 - 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. ER -