[Experience with a simple form for the evaluation of surgical risk due to nutritional status]

The diagnosis and determination of the nutritional status for the evaluation of a surgical risk is achieved on the basis of a simple documentation scheme: The aim of the presented study was the characterization of this specific check-up protocol to find out the usefulness and applicability of this scheme and its value for the recognition of the nutritional status as one of the factors determining the outcome of surgical patients. The results show that this simple procedure allows an equivalent ranging of patients in different classes of nutrition related states as the highly sophisticated, time, costs and staff consuming protocols which were published to define nutritional states in the last years. When the exact and differentiated status is not necessary the simple protocol gives the same information to judge the possible risk by nutritional deficiencies as the complicated protocols.