MUST Nutritional Screening Calculator
Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool — BMI + weight loss + acute disease
When to use it
Screen adults for malnutrition risk; interpret weight/BMI carefully with fluid disturbance, including dialysis. Review the complete BAPEN MUST guidance.
Category
Nursing Calculators
References
- BAPEN. The MUST Explanatory Booklet: A Guide to the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) for Adults
- Stratton RJ et al. Malnutrition in hospital outpatients and inpatients: prevalence, concurrent validity and ease of use of the 'malnutrition universal screening tool' ('MUST') for adults. Br J Nutr. 2004;92:799-808. PMID: 15533269
About NephroMind
This calculator is part of NephroMind, a free clinical decision-aid platform from the Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation (ASNRT) — over 128 bedside nephrology calculators plus a renal drug-dosing database, coded by a practicing transplant nephrologist.