Characteristics of patients receiving nutrition care and its associations with prognosis in a tertiary hospital.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the medical nutritional therapy (MNT) of adult non-critically ill hospitalization patients.

Methods: In a retrospective study, adults hospitalized for more than 48 h in non-intensive care unit medical and surgical areas that were classified as being at nutritional risk were included. Malnutrition was defined according to Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria.