Association of Nutritional Support With Clinical Outcomes Among Medical Inpatients Who Are Malnourished or at Nutritional Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Malnutrition affects a considerable proportion of the medical inpatient population. There is uncertainty regarding whether use of nutritional support during hospitalization in these patients positively alters their clinical outcomes.

Objective

To assess the association of nutritional support with clinical outcomes in medical inpatients who are malnourished or at nutritional risk.

Data sources

For this updated systematic review and meta-analysis, a search of the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, and Embase was conducted from January 1, 2015, to April 30, 2019; the included studies were published between 1982 and 2019.

Study selection

A prespecified Cochrane protocol was followed to identify trials comparing oral and enteral nutritional support interventions

SUBMITTER: Gomes F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902795 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature