STRONGkids
Hospital nutritional-risk screening using four domains and a 0-5 score.
What is STRONGkids?
STRONGkids: Hospital nutritional-risk screening using four domains and a 0-5 score. Active calculation. Population: Hospitalized children. Traceable evidence…
Population and scope
Nutrition Risk. Hospitalized children
Also searched as
STRONGkids · strongkids · nutritional risk · riesgo nutricional
Calculator available
This page has an active local calculator in PedsCore. Entered values are processed in the browser, with references, limits and interpretation shown alongside the result.
Clinical use
This PedsCore page brings together clinical information, implementation status and available evidence for STRONGkids. It is intended for Hospitalized children. The tool belongs to Growth and nutrition and should be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context.
Interpretation and validation
Independent local STRONGkids implementation with independently worded items and the published 1+2+1+1 weighting: subjective clinical assessment (1), high-risk disease/planned major surgery (2), reduced intake or relevant losses (1), and weight loss or poor weight gain (1). It does not reproduce the original form.
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Clinical review and maintenance
Implementation review and independent clinical review are shown separately. PedsCore does not attribute named reviewers or external endorsement without a public record supporting the claim. The repository preserves source, change and test history.
Editorial transparency
This page is part of an open-source project. Evidence level, implementation status, validation notes and sources are shown explicitly. It currently contains 3 catalog references. Content and calculation changes are reviewed through the public repository, automated tests and version traceability.
The absence of an active calculator is not a clinical recommendation: some tools remain reference-only while source, licensing, exact variant or validation still require review.
Each page lets you verify what is being assessed, which population the tool describes, whether local calculation is available, which limitations remain open and which references support implementation. This context matters when different publications, versions or adaptations share a similar name but are not interchangeable.
References
- Hulst JM, Zwart H, Hop WC, Joosten KFM. Dutch national survey to test the STRONGkids nutritional risk screening tool in hospitalized children. Clin Nutr. 2010;29(1):106-111.
- Application of a score system to evaluate the risk of malnutrition in a multiple hospital setting
- Screening for Pediatric Malnutrition at Hospital Admission: Which Screening Tool Is Best?