The Addition of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index to the Prognostic Scoring Systems Did Not Improve Mortality Prediction in Trauma Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

Table 1

Injury and patient characteristics of adult trauma patients who died and survived in the intensive care unit.

Variables	Death n = 138	Survival n = 988	OR (95% CI)
Sex				0.152
Male, n (%)	101 (73.2)	663 (67.1)	1.34 (0.90–2.00)
Female, n (%)	37 (26.8)	325 (32.9)	0.75 (0.50–1.11)
Age, years	62.0 ± 19.4	55.7 ± 19.1	—	<0.001
Albumin (g/dl)	3.1 ± 0.8	3.5 ± 0.7	—	<0.001
Lymphocyte (count)	2078.1 ± 1656.7	2007.4 ± 1468.8	—	0.602
PNI	41.6 ± 11.4	44.8 ± 9.4	—	<0.001
GNRI	94.4 ± 14.7	99.8 ± 12.5	—	<0.001
Comorbidities
DM, n (%)	36 (26.1)	206 (20.9)	1.34 (0.89–2.02)	0.161
HTN, n (%)	57 (41.3)	329 (33.3)	1.41 (0.98–2.03)	0.063
CAD, n (%)	21 (15.2)	86 (8.7)	1.88 (1.13–3.15)	0.015
CHF, n (%)	4 (2.9)	4 (0.4)	7.34 (1.82–29.71)	0.001
CVA, n (%)	5 (3.6)	49 (5.0)	0.72 (0.28–1.84)	0.491
ESRD, n (%)	12 (8.7)	29 (2.9)	3.15 (1.57–6.33)	0.001
GCS, median (IQR)	7 (3–15)	15 (9–15)	—	<0.001
ISS, median (IQR)	25 (20–33)	20 (16–25)	—	<0.001
1–15	11 (8.0)	232 (23.5)	0.28 (0.15–0.53)	<0.001
16–24	33(23.9)	425 (43.0)	0.42 (0.28–0.63)	<0.001
≥25	94 (68.1)	331 (33.5)	4.24 (2.90–6.21)	<0.001
Hospital stay, days	15.2 ± 15.5	23.5 ± 18.1	—	<0.001

CAD = coronary artery disease; CHF = congestive heart failure; CI = confidence interval; CVA = cerebral vascular accident; DM = diabetes mellitus; ESRD = end-stage renal disease; GCS = Glasgow coma scale; GNRI = geriatric nutritional risk index; HTN = hypertension; IQR = interquartile range; ISS = injury severity score; OR = odds ratio; PNI = prognostic nutritional index.