A Novel Risk Score to Predict the Need for Nutrition Support After Cardiac Surgery
Ohkuma R, Crawford T, Brown P, Grimm J, Magruder J, Kilic A, Suarez-Pierre A, Snyder S, Wood J, Schneider E, Sussman M, Whitman G. A Novel Risk Score to Predict the Need for Nutrition Support After Cardiac Surgery. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2017, 104: 1306-1312. PMID: 28625392, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.03.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPostoperative nutrition supportNutrition supportCardiac surgeryNS scoresAdult cardiac surgery patientsMultivariable logistic regression modelingEarly postoperative nutritionMalnutrition-related morbidityCardiac surgery patientsNovel risk scoreRelative odds ratioLogistic regression modelingTiming of initiationPostoperative nutritionSurgery patientsDerivation cohortIndependent predictorsPredictive screening toolMultivariable analysisValidation cohortC-statisticOdds ratioHigh riskRisk scorePatients