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Review
. 2019 Jul 30;8(8):1130.
doi: 10.3390/jcm8081130.

Nutritional Management of Medical Inpatients

Emilie Reber  1 , Filomena Gomes  2 , Lia Bally  3 , Philipp Schuetz  4   5 , Zeno Stanga  3
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Review

Nutritional Management of Medical Inpatients

Emilie Reber et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

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.

Keywords: malnutrition; nutritional management; nutritional therapy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.

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Nutritional algorithm, after [30].
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