Validity of Nutritional Screening Tools for Hospitalized Children

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Tools</td><td align="center">Kappa value (95% CI) for acute malnutrition  (wasting)</td><td align="center">Kappa value (95% CI) for chronic malnutrition (stunted)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">PYMS</td><td align="center">0.348 (0.191–0.506)</td><td align="center">0.125 (0–0.299)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">STAMP</td><td align="center">0.018 (0–0.140)</td><td align="center">0 (0–0.140)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">STRONG-kids</td><td align="center">0.028 (0–0.149)</td><td align="center">0 (0–0.144)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Kappa value between each of the screening tools and SGNA compared to acute/chronic malnutrition.

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Table 3: Validity of Nutritional Screening Tools for Hospitalized Children 