Nutritional Management of Medical Inpatients

Malnutrition is a common condition in hospitalized patients that is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Hospital malnutrition has multifactorial causes and is associated with negative clinical and economic outcomes. There is now growing evidence from clinical trials for the efficiency and efficac...

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Published inJournal of clinical medicine Vol. 8; no. 8; p. 1130
Main Authors Reber, Emilie, Gomes, Filomena, Bally, Lia, Schuetz, Philipp, Stanga, Zeno
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI 30.07.2019
MDPI AG
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malnutrition
nutritional management
nutritional therapy
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malnutrition
nutritional management
nutritional therapy
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Summary:Malnutrition is a common condition in hospitalized patients that is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Hospital malnutrition has multifactorial causes and is associated with negative clinical and economic outcomes. There is now growing evidence from clinical trials for the efficiency and efficacy of nutritional support in the medical inpatient population. Since many medical inpatients at nutritional risk or malnourished are polymorbid (i.e., suffer from multiple comorbidities), this makes the provision of adequate nutritional support a challenging task, given that most of the clinical nutrition guidelines are dedicated to single diseases. This review summarizes the current level of evidence for nutritional support in not critically ill polymorbid medical inpatients.
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These authors contributed equally to the manuscript.
ISSN:2077-0383
2077-0383
DOI:10.3390/jcm8081130