To eat or not to eat? Indicators for reduced food intake in 91,245 patients hospitalized on nutritionDays 2006-2014 in 56 countries worldwide: a descriptive analysis.

Schindler, Karin; Themessl-Huber, Michael; Hiesmayr, Michael; Kosak, Sigrid; Lainscak, Mitja; Laviano, Alessandro; Ljungqvist, Olle; Mouhieddine, Mohamed; Schneider, Stéphane; de van der Schueren, Marian; Schütz, Tatjana; Schuh, Christian; Singer, Pierre; Bauer, Peter; Pichard, Claude

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To eat or not to eat? Indicators for reduced food intake in 91,245 patients hospitalized on nutritionDays 2006-2014 in 56 countries worldwide: a descriptive analysis.

Author(s): Karin Schindler, Michael Themessl-Huber, Michael Hiesmayr, Sigrid Kosak, Mitja Lainscak, Alessandro Laviano, Olle Ljungqvist, Mohamed Mouhieddine, Stéphane Schneider, Marian de van der Schueren, Tatjana Schütz, Christian Schuh, Pierre Singer, Peter Bauer, Claude Pichard

Publication date: 2016-11-01

Journal: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Publisher: American Society for Nutrition

Keywords: hospital, undernutrition, food intake, disease-related malnutrition, patient sex, mobility

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Abstract

Inadequate nutrition during hospitalization is strongly associated with poor patient outcome, but ensuring adequate food intake is not a priority in clinical routine worldwide. This lack of priority results in inadequate and unbalanced food intake in patients and huge amounts of wasted food.