Malnutrition determined by the controlling nutritional status score, prognostic nutritional index and hemoglobin-albumin-lymphocyte-platelet score is associated with prolonged hospital stay in liver cancer patients who underwent interventional treatment

Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the nutritional status evaluated by the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score, Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) and hemoglobin-albumin-lymphocyte-platelet (HALP) score, and the prolonged hospital stay in liver cancer patients who underwent interventional treatment, in order to provide a reference for clinical optimization of the prognosis of liver cancer patients undergoing interventional treatment through nutritional assessment. Methods 466 liver cancer patients who underwent interventional treatment were retrospectively analyzed. Medical records (age, gender, history of smoking, history of alcohol drinking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, viral hepatitis, and laboratory test results) were collected. The threshold for prolonged hospital stay was defined based on the third quartile (75th percentile) of length of hospital stay. The relationship between CONUT, PNI, and HALP and prolonged hospital stay was analyzed. Results The mean hospital stay of patients was 11.0 (8.0, 14.0) days. There were 337 (72.3%) patients without prolonged hospital stay (