Abstract:BackgroundThere is a high incidence of preoperative undernutrition in hospitalised patients in low and middle‐income countries (LMICs), leading to increased postoperative complications, length of hospital stay and early mortality. Review aims are to establish the prevalence of undernutrition and assess the use of validated nutritional screening tools in surgical patients across LMICs.MethodsProtocol was PRISMA compliant and Prospero registered (CRD42019126765). Twelve international databases were searched from… Show more
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