Effectiveness of a nutrition education program for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition in end-stage renal disease.

Objective: In end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, malnutrition is mainly addressed from a pharmacological but not educational point of view. Therefore, the objective of this study was to implement a nutritional education program (NEP) and to evaluate and compare its effectiveness in the treatment and prevention of malnutrition with oral supplementation (OS)-the standard treatment in these patients.

Design: This study was a longitudinal, 4-month prospective study.