Table 2 Agreement among different malnutrition assessment tools: analysis by Cohen’s kappa statistic. Subjective global assessment (SGA), protein energy wasting (PEW).

From: Malnutrition, protein energy wasting and sarcopenia in patients attending a haemodialysis centre in sub-Saharan Africa

Tool

SGA

Sarcopenia

Frailty

PEW

SGA

1

0.09

0.22

0.15

Sarcopenia

0.09

1

0.21

−0.02

Frailty

0.22

0.21

1

0.06

PEW

0.15

−0.02

0.06

1

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