Clinical benefits of oral nutritional supplementation for elderly hip fracture patients: a single blind randomised controlled trial.

Background: malnutrition is an important risk factor for poor outcome in patients recovering after hip fracture surgery. This study aimed to investigate the clinical, nutritional and rehabilitation effects of an oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) in an inpatient rehabilitation setting.

Methods: this was an observer-blinded randomised controlled trial of elderly post-surgical proximal femoral fracture patients.