[Clinical Nutrition for the Medical Patient: From Screening to Diagnosis and Start of Nutritional Therapy].

Clinical Nutrition for the Medical Patient: From Screening to Diagnosis and Start of Nutritional Therapy With the demographic increase of elderly, multimorbid patients, the number of those with disease-related malnutrition is also steadily increasing. We now know that malnutrition is a strong and independent risk factor for morbidity, mortality, and poor quality of life. Fortunately, however, several studies have shown that malnutrition screening followed by physiological nutritional therapy to meet individual nutritional goals has a positive impact on the clinical course of medical patients.