NRS-2002 (Nutrition Risk Screening 2002)

Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (Kondrup 2003): severity of disease (0-3), nutritional status (0-3), plus 1 point for age >= 70; total >= 3 flags nutritional risk (ESPEN-endorsed cutoff).

Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Severity of disease
1
Nutritional status
1
Age >= 70 years
No

Result: NRS-2002 2: not at risk for malnutrition per Kondrup 2003 (ESPEN-endorsed cutoff >=3).

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What the result means

0-2
Not at risk for malnutrition per Kondrup 2003.
>=3
At risk for malnutrition per Kondrup 2003 (ESPEN-endorsed cutoff >=3); nutritional support indicated.

What you enter

  • Severity of disease (0-3)
  • Nutritional status (0-3)
  • Age >= 70 years (+1)
How this is calculated

Kondrup J, Rasmussen HH, Hamberg O, Stanga Z. Nutritional risk screening (NRS 2002): a new method based on an analysis of controlled clinical trials. Clin Nutr. 2003;22(3):321-336. Read the source ↗

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