Undernutrition in hospitals

How much undernutrition is there in hospitals?

Many studies over the last 30 years have emphasised the importance of disease-related undernutrition in hospitalised patients (Bistrian et al. 1974; Hill et al. 1977; McWhirter & Pennington, 1994; Corish et al. 2000; Kelly et al. 2000). This is largely because undernutrition adversely affects clinical outcome, and well-being, and is responsible for a disproportionately large consumption of heal...

Systematic screening for undernutrition in hospitals: predictive factors for success.

BACKGROUND & AIMS Since 2007, systematic screening for undernutrition has become a performance indicator (PI) for hospitals within the National Benchmarks on Quality of Care of the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate (HCI). Its introduction was guided by a national implementation program. The aim of this study was to evaluate the screening results from 2007 to 2010 and to identify predictive factors...

Nutritional risk, malnutrition (undernutrition), overweight, obesity and nutrition support among hospitalized patients in Beijing teaching hospitals.

The purpose of this study was to test the suitability of Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002) among hospitalized patients and to determine the prevalence of nutritional risk, undernutrition, overweight, obesity, nutritional support and the changes of nutritional risk from admission to discharge or over a two-week period. A prospective descriptive design was used to describe patients' data...

Child Undernutrition in India

Undernutrition in older adults.

Undernutrition in older persons usually presents as weight loss and is predominantly due to protein energy wasting. The presentation of undernutrition is often subtle in older persons and there is a need to utilize screening tools and increasing physician awareness. There are multiple treatable causes of undernutrition in older persons. The major causes are anorexia, cachexia, sarcopenia, dehyd...