Results of a nutritional status survey (nutritionDay2008) in hospitals

Introduction: nutritionDay has been launched by The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), and it was organized in Europe for second time on 31st of January. Our main aim was to evaluate the nutritional risk of hospitalized patients on different departments in order to help professionals to optimalize nutritional therapy of the patients. Patients and methods: 221 hospital wards volunteered to participate with 3962 volunteer patients (55.7% men, 44.3% women, mean age was 62+/-11 years). The heads of departments and the patients completed questionnaires. Data analysis was done with compari…