Dit najaar zijn de langverwachte nieuwe consensuscriteria voor het vaststellen van ondervoeding en sarcopenie gepresenteerd. Het gaat om de internationale criteria voor de diagnose van ondervoeding en de herziene Europese consensus over de sarcopenie-definitie en de criteria voor diagnose. Beide worden …

Background: Undernutrition is a common complication of disease and a major determinant of hospital stay outcome. Dutch hospitals are required to screen for undernutrition on the first day of admission. Objective: We sought to determine the prevalence of the screening score “undernourished” with the use …

BACKGROUND: When indirect calorimetry is not available, predictive equations are used to estimate resing energy expenditure (REE). There is no consensus about which equation to use in hospitalized patients. The objective of this study is to examine the validity of REE predictive equations for underweight, …