Validity of Nutritional Screening Tools for Hospitalized Children

Table 4

Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratio between nutritional screening tools and SGNA.

	Sensitivity (95% CI)	Specificity (95% CI)	Positive predictive value; (95% CI)	Negative predictive value; (95% CI)	Positive LR; (95% CI)	Negative LR; (95% CI)
PYMS	95.31 (0.87–0.98)	76.92 (0.63–0.86)	83.56 (0.73–0.9)	93.02 (0.81–0.97)	4.13 (2.507–6.804)	0.061 (0.02–0.186)
STAMP	100 (0.94–1)	11.54 (0.05–0.23)	58.2 (0.48–0.67)	100 (0.61–1)	1.13 (~)	0 (0–~)
STRONG-kids	100 (0.94–1)	7.7 (0.03–0.18)	57.14 (0.479–0.659)	100 (0.51–1)	1.083 (1.036–1.222)	0 (0–0.757)

LR: likelihood ratio.