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. 2012 Sep 12;2012(9):CD007146. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007146.pub3

Neelemaat 2012.

Methods RCT
Participants Setting: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
N = 210
Sample: malnourished older adults newly admitted to an acute hospital (general internal medicine, rheumatology, gastroenterology, dermatology, nephrology, orthopedics, traumatology, or vascular surgery)
Age (years): 74.5 (SD 9.5)
Inclusion criteria: aged ≥ 60; expected length of hospital stay > 2 days); malnourished (BMI ≤ 20.0 kg/m2, 5% or more self reported unintentional weight loss in the previous month, or 10% or more self reported unintentional weight loss in the previous 6 months)
Exclusion criteria: dementia
Interventions 1. Nutritional intervention (energy‐ and protein‐enriched diet, oral nutritional supplements, calcium‐vitamin D supplement, telephone counselling by a dietitian
2. Control: usual care
Outcomes Falls monitored for 3 months after discharge
Duration of the study 3 months post discharge
Notes Not all community‐dwelling, but 88% were prior to admission