ESPEN guideline on nutritional support for polymorbid medical inpatients.

Wunderle, Carla; Gomes, Filomena; Schuetz, Philipp; Stumpf, Franziska; Austin, Peter; Ballesteros-Pomar, María D; Cederholm, Tommy; Fletcher, Jane; Laviano, Alessandro; Norman, Kristina; Poulia, Kalliopi-Anna; Schneider, Stéphane M; Stanga, Zeno; Bischoff, Stephan C (2023). ESPEN guideline on nutritional support for polymorbid medical inpatients. Clinical nutrition, 42(9), pp. 1545-1568. Elsevier 10.1016/j.clnu.2023.06.023

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BACKGROUND

Disease-related malnutrition in polymorbid medical inpatients is a highly prevalent syndrome associated with significantly increased morbidity, disability, short- and long-term mortality, impaired recovery from illness, and cost of care.

AIM

As there are uncertainties in applying disease-specific guidelines to patients with multiple conditions, our aim was to provide evidence-based recommendations on nutritional support for the polymorbid patient population hospitalized in medical wards.

METHODS

This update adheres to the standard operating procedures for ESPEN guidelines. We did a systematic literature search for 15 clinical questions in three different databases (Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Library), as well as in secondary sources (e.g. published guidelines), until July 12th. Retrieved abstracts were screened to identify relevant studies that were used to develop recommendations (incl. SIGN grading), which was followed by submission to Delphi voting.

RESULTS

From a total of 3527 retrieved abstracts, 60 new relevant studies were analyzed and used to generate a guideline draft that proposed 32 recommendations (7x A, 11x B, 10x O and 4x GPP), which encompass different aspects of nutritional support including indication, route of feeding, energy and protein requirements, micronutrient requirements, disease-specific nutrients, timing, monitoring and procedure of intervention. The results of the first online voting showed a strong consensus (agreement of >90%) on 100% of the recommendations. Therefore, no final consensus conference was needed.

CONCLUSIONS

Recent high-quality trials have provided increasing evidence that nutritional support can reduce morbidity and other complications associated with malnutrition in polymorbid patients. The timely screening of patients for risk of malnutrition at hospital admission followed by individualized nutritional support interventions for at-risk patients should be part of routine clinical care and multimodal treatment in hospitals worldwide. Use of this updated guideline offers an evidence-based nutritional approach to the polymorbid medical inpatients and may improve their outcomes.

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