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 |