Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Consensus Malnutrition Characteristics: Usability and Association With Outcomes.

Malnutrition has been documented in approximately one-third of patients in developed countries on hospital admission and is associated with negative clinical outcomes. The need to identify and intervene in at-risk patients is critical to minimize these negative outcomes. A consensus approach for diagnosing and documenting malnutrition in hospitalized adult and pediatric patients was published jointly by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) in 2012 and 2014, respectively.