Association of nutritional risk and adverse medical outcomes across different medical inpatient populations

• Published in: Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Vol. 31; no. 11; pp. 1385 - 1393
• Main Authors: Felder, Susan, M.D, Lechtenboehmer, Christian, Bally, Martina, M.D, Fehr, Rebecca, Deiss, Manuela, Faessler, Lukas, Kutz, Alexander, M.D, Steiner, Deborah, M.D, Rast, Anna C., M.D, Laukemann, Svenja, M.D, Kulkarni, Prasad, Ph.D, Stanga, Zeno, M.D, Haubitz, Sebastian, M.D, Huber, Andreas, M.D, Mueller, Beat, M.D, Schuetz, Philipp, M.D., M.P.H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.11.2015; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Acute Disease - mortality; Aged; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Clinical outcomes; Female; Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Health risk assessment; Hospitalization; Humans; Infectious diseases; Inpatients; Length of Stay; Male; Malnutrition; Malnutrition - complications; Medical diagnosis; Mortality; NRS; Nutrition; Nutritional risk screening; Nutritional Status; Odds Ratio; Parenteral nutrition; Patient Readmission; Patients; Prevalence; Prospective Studies; Quality of Life; Readmission; Socioeconomic Factors; Switzerland - epidemiology; Tertiary Care Centers; Switzerland; Nutritional risk screening; Readmission; Prevalence; Mortality; NRS; Length of stay

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of nutritional risk and its association with multiple adverse clinical outcomes in a large cohort of acutely ill medical inpatients from a Swiss tertiary care hospital. Methods We prospectively followed consecutive adult medical...