Improving Nutritional Risk Management at a tertiary Swiss Hospital Center of General Internal Medicine: A pre-post intervention study

Introduction: Managing patients' nutritional risk is important in the hospital setting. Malnutrition often goes undetected and therefore untreated. The general goal of the present study was to improve malnutrition awareness and management at our department. The objectives were to assess whether an easylearn educational program leads to an increased knowledge of basics in nutrition and behavioural changes toward better malnutrition management, and therefore to more frequent nutritional therapies [1,2]. Methods: Single centre prospective pre-post intervention study. Nutritional screening (NRS 2002) and prescriptio…