SGA Toolkit IAPEN play online

Subjective Global Assessment(SGA) is a tool used by health care providers to assess nutritional status and aid in the prediction of nutrition-associated clinical outcomes, such as postoperative infectionsand/or mortality.

This App data can be integrated into Excel.
Step 1: Install App
Step 2: Install Notepad
Step 3: Perform SGA Analysis
Step 4: Copy the SGA Results from the textbox
Step 5: Create a TXT file using Notepad App and save the results.
Step 6: Upload all TXT Files into Excel for further analysis.

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Allan S. Detsy and his team, in 1987,published the first report of anutritional assessment tool, entitled SGA, thatuses clinical judgment to assess nutritional statusin preoperative surgical patients and to predictpostoperative infections; SGA had the best sensitivityand specificity for predicting infection aftersurgery.

Theoriginal SGA form had clinicians score 5 components of amedical history (i.e., weight change, dietary intake,gastrointestinal symptoms, functional capacity,disease and its relation to nutritional requirements)and 3 components of a brief physicalexamination (ie, signs of fat and muscle wasting,nutrition-associated alternations in fluid balance).The patient is then assigned a rating of Wellnourished (A), moderately undernourished (B),or Severely undernourished (C) by subjective consideration of the data collected in the 8 areas,without adhering to a rigid scoring system. The SGA Toolkit developed by IAPEN also contains 7-point scale SGA.

References:

1. Detsky, A. S., Baker, J. P., Johnston, N., Whittaker, S., Mendelson, R. A., & Jeejeebhoy, K. N. (1987). What is subjective global assessment of nutritional status?. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition, 11(1), 8-13.

2. Steiber, A. L., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Secker, D., McCarthy, M., Sehgal, A., & McCann, L. (2004). Subjective Global Assessment in chronic kidney disease: a review. Journal of Renal Nutrition, 14(4), 191-200.