title: [Nutritional support at the hospital: diagnosis of malnutrition and its associated risks for better prevention and treatment].
abstract: Malnutrition (undernutrition) is common in hospital inpatients. However, its prevalence and consequences are underestimated. Malnutrition is an independent factor of morbidity and mortality, generating high hospital overcosts. It is important to examine four separate issues requiring the use of different methods for their assessment, namely the nutritional risk, the severity of malnutrition, the risk of associated complications, and the efficacy of renutrition programs.
authors.affiliation: Service inter-hospitalier de Biochimie, Hôpital Cochin-Hôtel-Dieu, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75679 Paris cedex 14. solange.ngon@cch.aphp.fr
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cynober
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D018570:Risk Assessment