Nutritional Management and Outcomes in Malnourished Medical Inpatients

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; Cultural studies: food and society; Research and information: general; adolescents; age; albumin; all-in-one parenteral admixture; anorexia nervosa; appendicular skeletal muscle mass; artificial nutrition; ascites; benchmarking; bioelectrical impedance analysis; biomarkers; cachexia; cancer; carbohydrates; children; chronic critical illness; chronic disease; cirrhosis; clinical presentation; compatibility; computed tomography; continuity of care; copper; critical care; critical illness; critically ill patients; dehydration; diabetes; diagnosis; dietary pattern; disease related malnutrition.; drug administration; drug admixing; dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry; dumping syndrome; dysphagia; e-counselling; early parenteral nutrition; economic challenges; efficacy; elderly; enteral nutrition; fat; fat-free mass; fluid intake; gastroparesis; Geriatric patients; glucose; glucose control; hospital; hospital readmission; hyperglycemia; hypophosphatemia; ICU Survivors; IGF-1; indirect calorimeter; indirect calorimetry; inflammation; insulin; insulin resistance; intensive care unit; intermediate care unit; interventions; iron; lean soft tissue; length of stay; malnutrition; management; medical nutrition therapy; metabolic syndrome; micronutrient deficiency; micronutrients; mid-arm muscle circumference; monitoring; mortality; n/a; nursing; nutrition; nutrition care; Nutrition Risk Screening (NRS-2002); nutrition therapy; nutritional assessment; nutritional counselling; nutritional management; nutritional risk screening; nutritional support; nutritional support team; nutritional therapy; obesity; old; older persons; oral nutritional supplements; outcomes; parenteral nutrition; pathophysiology; Pediatric Intensive Care Unit; pharmaceutical expertise; phase angle; prealbumin; process indicators; prognostic marker; protein; refeeding syndrome; resting energy expenditure; sarcopenia; sarcopenic obesity; selenium; shock; skeletal muscle index; stability; survival; therapy; thiamine; treatment; type 1 diabetes mellitus; underfeeding; vasopressors; vitamin B12; vitamins; water; weight gain; zinc
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 Malnutrition lurks in the background of hospitalized medical patients. A large proportion of patients are malnourished upon hospital admission and patients often experience further nutritional deterioration during their stay and during disease recovery. However, although the negative effects of malnutrition on the outcomes of patients are well recognized, we still struggle to identify appropriate patients and efficacious nutritional interventions to overcome this problem. Recent studies have produced convincing evidence that adequate and timely nutritional management of medical in-patients can contribute to the prevention of negative consequences and thus improve the clinical outcome of patients. This Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine focuses on multiple practical aspects of nutritional management of medical in-patients, from screening for nutritional risk to the practical implementation of nutritional therapy and its possible complications, including financial aspects, to increasing clinician awareness and knowledge of nutritional care in hospitals.