Diagnostic performance of the Minimal Eating Observation and Nutrition Form - Version II (MEONF-II) and Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002) among hospital inpatients - a cross-sectional study

Table 4 User-friendliness of the MNA, MEONF-II and NRS 2002, n = 87

	MNA	NRS 2002	MEONF-II	P-value ¹
Time to complete, minutes median	10	5	5	< 0.0005 ²
q1-q3	8-10	2-10	2-10
min-max	3-20	1-20	1-20
Instructions easy to understand, %	93	93	99	0.165
Items easy to understand, %	93	81	97	< 0.0005 ³
Items easy to answer, %	85	75	96	< 0.0005 ⁴
Items relevant, %	78	79	87	0.247

¹⁾ Friedman's two-way analysis of variance by ranks followed by post-hoc Wilcoxon signed ranks tests (time to complete), and Cochran's Q test followed by post-hoc McNemar tests (other data).
²⁾ Significant difference between MNA and NRS 2002, MNA and MEONF-II (both comparisons p = 0.001; p = 0.003 following Bonferroni correction).
³⁾ Significant difference between MNA and NRS 2002 (p = 0.004; p = 0.012 following Bonferroni correction), and between NRS 2002 and MEONF-II (p = 0.001; p = 0.003 following Bonferroni correction).
⁴⁾ Significant difference between NRS 2002 and MEONF-II (p = 0.001; p = 0.003 following Bonferroni correction).
MNA, Mini Nutritional Assessment; MEONF-II, Minimal Eating Observation and Nutrition Form - Version II; NRS 2002, Nutrition Risk Screening 2002; q1-q3, inter-quartile range (25^th-75^th percentile).

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