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Research Article: Comparative evaluation of five nutrition-inflammation indices for predicting 28-day ICU mortality in critically ill patients with bone infections: a dual-cohort study with external validation and interpretable machine learning

Date Published: 2026-09-16

Abstract:
Malnutrition and systemic inflammation are highly prevalent among critically ill patients with bone infections and may independently predict adverse outcomes. Five composite nutrition-inflammation indices—the modified Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill (mNUTRIC) score, Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), Index of Nutritional Assessment (INA), and Hemoglobin-Albumin-Lymphocyte-Platelet (HALP) score—have been proposed as prognostic tools; however, their comparative performance in the bone infection intensive care unit (ICU) population has not been systematically defined. A dual-cohort retrospective study design was employed. The internal derivation cohort comprised ICU patients with bone infections from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (MIMIC-IV) database ( n = 917; 28-day ICU mortality 12.1%), and the external validation cohort was drawn from the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University ( n = 256; 28-day mortality 16.0%). All five indices were calculated from laboratory and clinical data collected within 24 h of ICU admission. Multivariable logistic regression (three hierarchical adjustment models), restricted cubic spline (RCS) analysis, and subgroup analyses were performed to examine the independent associations of each index with 28-day ICU mortality. For predictive model development, a dual LASSO-Boruta feature selection strategy was applied to the derivation cohort, yielding 14 core features (events-per-variable ratio [EPV] = 7.9). Five machine learning (ML) models — logistic regression (LR), random forest (RF), XGBoost, LightGBM, and support vector machine (SVM) — were trained with synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) and five-fold stratified cross-validation. Discriminative performance was assessed by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC). The optimal model was further evaluated using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values computed directly for the final LightGBM model with external stability validation, calibration curves, and decision curve analysis (DCA). A fully nested cross-validation with feature selection repeated within each training fold confirmed the robustness of the external performance. A total of 917 ICU patients with bone infections were included in the derivation cohort. In the fully adjusted model, HALP lowest tertile (T1, ? 171.11; odds ratio [OR] = 3.41, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.13–5.46, p < 0.001) and low PNI (< 45; OR = 2.48, 95% CI 1.09–5.66, p = 0.031) remained independently associated with 28-day ICU mortality, whereas the associations of mNUTRIC, GNRI, and INA were attenuated to non-significance after full adjustment. RCS analysis confirmed a significant nonlinear dose-response relationship for HALP ( p -nonlinearity < 0.001). In both cohorts, PNI (derivation AUROC 0.761; external 0.742) and HALP (0.745; 0.713) demonstrated the highest discriminative performance among the five indices, while GNRI lost discrimination owing to a near-universal at-risk classification (94.9% of the derivation cohort). Subgroup analysis showed the HALP–mortality association was consistent across all clinical strata (all interaction p > 0.27). Among ML models, LightGBM achieved the highest external AUROC (0.956, 95% CI 0.921–0.985). SHAP analysis of the final LightGBM model identified APS III, acute kidney injury (AKI), and arterial oxygen tension (PO 2 ) as the most important predictors, with the ranking highly stable in the external validation cohort. DCA demonstrated superior net clinical benefit for the ML model over any single index across clinically relevant threshold probabilities. Among five nutrition-inflammation indices evaluated in critically ill patients with bone infections, HALP and PNI were the leading independent predictors of 28-day ICU mortality, with HALP showing a robust, strongly nonlinear threshold effect that was consistent across all subgroups and adjustment models. In contrast to its dominant role in cardiothoracic populations, GNRI lost discriminative value here because nearly all patients were classified as at-risk. An interpretable ML model integrating 14 routinely available clinical features achieved excellent external discrimination (AUROC = 0.956) and clinical utility, supporting its potential as a decision-support tool for early risk stratification in this high-risk population.

Introduction:
Malnutrition and systemic inflammation are highly prevalent among critically ill patients with bone infections and may independently predict adverse outcomes. Five composite nutrition-inflammation indices—the modified Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill (mNUTRIC) score, Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), Index of Nutritional Assessment (INA), and Hemoglobin-Albumin-Lymphocyte-Platelet (HALP) score—have been proposed as prognostic tools; however, their comparative…

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