Nutritional support after hospital discharge improves long-term mortality in malnourished adult medical patients: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background & Aims: In patients with malnutrition there is an increased long-term risk for mortality beyond the preciding hospital stay. We investigated the effects of postdischarge nutritional support in the outpatient setting on all-cause mortality in the populaton of malnourished medical patients in a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Methods: We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE, from inception to December 21, 2022.

Effect of micronutrient supplementation in addition to nutritional therapy on clinical outcomes of medical inpatients: results of an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: There is increasing evidence from randomized controlled trials showing that different types of nutritional support interventions improve clinical outcomes in malnourished medical inpatients. Whether trials using micronutrient supplementation in addition to nutritional therapy are superior to trials without micronutrient supplementation remains unclear.

Methods: This is a secondary analysis of a systematic search and meta-analysis.

Nutritional trials using high protein strategies and long duration of support show strongest clinical effects on mortality.: Results of an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: There is increasing evidence from randomized-controlled trials demonstrating that nutritional support improves clinical outcomes in the population of malnourished medical inpatients. We investigated associations of trial characteristics including clinical setting, duration of intervention, individualization of nutritional support and amount of energy and protein, and effects on clinical outcomes in an updated meta-analysis.

Methods: We searched Cochrane Library, MEDLINE and EMBASE, from inception to December 15, 2020.