Effectiveness of individualised nutritional care plans to reduce malnutrition during hospitalisation and up to 3 months post-discharge: a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The prevalence of malnutrition after hospitalisation is reported to be 20%-45%, which may lead to adverse outcomes, as malnutrition increases the risk of complications, morbidity, mortality and loss of function. Improving the quality of nutritional treatment in hospitals and post-discharge is necessary, as hospital stays tend to be short. We aimed to identify and map studies that assess the effectiveness of individualised nutritional care plans to reduce malnutrition during hospitalisation and for the first 3 months post-discharge.

Design

This was a systematic scoping review.

Methods

We systematically searched for all types of studies in the following databases: EMBASE, MEDLINE via PubMed, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, wi

SUBMITTER: Ingstad K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7640518 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature