Date	Event	Description
19 July 2011	New citation required but conclusions have not changed	The title of the review has been changed from 'Dietary advice for illness‐related malnutrition in adults' to 'Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults' following advice from the peer reviewers and the editor.
8 June 2011	New search has been performed	In total 12 new studies have been included in the review (Baldwin 2008; Campbell 2008; Chandra 1985; Gonzalez‐Espinoza 2005; Manguso 2005; Norman 2008b; Persson 2007; Ravasco 2005b; Rydwik 2008; Sharma 2002; Singh 2008; Stratton 2007). Whilst updating this review, a separate group of studies of supportive interventions to enhance nutritional intake have been identified. These studies will be included in a new review. Two studies originally included in this review meet the inclusion criteria of the new review and therefore have been removed from this review at this update and will be included in the new review (Hickson 2004; Turic 1998). After consideration by both authors, 30 new studies have been excluded from the review (Arutiunov 2009; Beck 2008; Botella‐Carretero 2008; Carlsson 2005; Duncan 2006; Forli 2006; Idilman 2009; Jie 2009; Krasnoff 2006; Kruizenga 2005; Lejeune 2005; Manders 2009; Nijs 2006; Olofsson 2007; Parrott 2006; Pedersen 2005; Planas 2005; Plank 2008; Rabinovitch 2006; Rassmussen 2006; Rüfenacht 2010; Salas‐Salvado 2005; Simmons 2008; Smoliner 2008; Solerte 2008; Swanenburg 2007; Tatsumi 2009; Taylor 2006; Watson 2008; Wouters‐Wessling 2005). There are three studies 'Awaiting classification' (Margare 2002; Penalva 2009; Shatenstein 2008).
12 November 2008	Amended	Converted to new review format.
14 November 2007	New citation required and conclusions have changed	Substantive amendment. Tessa Parsons and Stuart Logan have stepped down as authors on this review. A new co‐author, Elizabeth Weekes, has been recruited.
14 November 2007	New search has been performed	The latest search did not identify any studies eligible for inclusion in the review. Two papers previously listed as 'Awaiting Assessment' have now been moved to 'Included studies' (Kalnins 2005; Weekes 2006). The Kalnins 2005 paper is the primary paper for the previously included study (abstracts) ‐ Kalnins 1996. In the previous version of the review it was unclear how the different studies measured grip strength and so we removed the graphs showing these data and presented the reported means and standard deviations in an additional table. We have now been able to clarify this issue and the data for this outcome is again presented in the analysis. The plain language summary has been updated in light of the current guidance from The Cochrane Collaboration.
15 November 2006	New search has been performed	Eleven studies have been added to the 'Included studies' section and there are now two studies listed as 'Awaiting Assessment'. It is unclear how the different studies have measured grip strength. Until this has been clarified, we have removed the graphs showing these data and presented the reported means and standard deviations in an additional table. The previous version of this review suggested that nutritional supplements were associated with significantly greater short‐term weight gains. The addition of data at this update has challenged this finding, although it has not been possible to combine the new data in a meta‐analysis. Additionally, this review demonstrates significant improvements in weight in people receiving dietary advice with nutritional supplements rather than dietary advice alone or no intervention. This review has still failed to find any evidence for clinical benefits, such as improved survival, rate of complications and reductions in numbers of hospital admissions and length of stay, of dietary advice.
19 February 2004	New search has been performed	Two studies (McCarthy 1999; Persson 2002) have been added to the 'Included studies' section. Data are not currently available from these studies, but are being sought from the authors. The reviewers aim to incorporate these data into the next update of the review. Data from a study previously included in 'Studies awaiting assessment' has been obtained from the author and this study is now incorporated into the review (Hickson 2002).
27 February 2002	New search has been performed	This includes the addition of one study into the "Studies Awaiting Assessment" section of the review. The Hickson 2002 study has not been published in full, but has been submitted for publication and will be incorporated into a future update of this review.