Association of prognostic nutritional index with mortality in patients with sepsis-associated delirium: a retrospective MIMIC-IV study
Shengnan Kong, Chunling Yang, Xinya Li, Qin Lai, Jiafang Zhang, Yu Wang, Jun Lyu · 2026
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Shengnan Kong and six colleagues examined in 2026 whether a simple nutrition score predicts death in patients whose severe infection brings on delirium. The prognostic nutritional index combines blood albumin with a white cell count, and its value in sepsis-associated delirium was unclear. Using the MIMIC-IV intensive care database, they split 2,160 patients into low and high score groups and tracked survival to one year.
Patients with low scores died far more often at three, six, and twelve months than patients with high scores. The link held after statistical adjustment and after weighting methods that balance the groups, and the score predicted death about as well as a standard organ failure score. The relationship was curved rather than straight. Clinicians could use this cheap, routine measure to spot high-risk patients early.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shengnan Kong, Chunling Yang, Xinya Li, Qin Lai, Jiafang Zhang, Yu Wang, Jun Lyu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47353 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |