Positive effect of protein‐supplemented hospital food on protein intake in patients at nutritional risk: a randomised controlled trial

Abstract

The novel food service concept had a significant positive impact on overall protein intake and on weight-adjusted energy intake in hospitalised patients at nutritional risk.

Undernutrition: who cares? Perspectives of dietitians and older adults on undernutrition

“…In a hospital setting, short-term options, such as replacing regular food products with enriched food products and meals, have shown to effectively increase intake [19][20][21]. Another option is to stimulate intake by 'nudging' , an example of nudging in the hospital setting was a study by van der Zanden et al In this study, call centre employees asked a patient with every meal order if they would like a dairy, or other protein-rich, product with their meal.…”

Functional training and timed nutrition intervention in infectious medical patients

“…The nutrition intervention only lasted for a period of days, and the effect to hand grip strength has furthermore been questioned. 25 Health-related quality of life This study showed that HRQoL measured with the EQ5D-3L improved for both age groups below and above 70 years after intervention on nutrition and physical activity. Although EQ5D was not validated in infectious medical patients, it has been greatly supported in many other disease groups and is an amended tool in background population studies in Denmark.…”

“…Only grip strength, which was included as it has shown to be a significant predictor for evaluation of loss of function, did not show improvements. In the study by Munk et al, 25 the authors found that underpower may be one of the reasons why they did not detect differences between groups regarding hand grip strength and a 6-month nutrition intervention. This might also influence our results; however, only the 470-year olds show a trend to improvement.…”

“…20,21 Despite initiatives to fight nutritional risk in hospitals, the big breakthrough remains to be seen, especially regarding protein intake, as well as with regard to nutrition process indicators, such as nutritional screening and estimation of nutritional requirements. 20,[22][23][24][25][26] Although physical activity is known to gain appetite in healthy individuals, especially protein intake within a short time frame after exercise and specifically after resistance training has been shown to be beneficial in increasing muscle mass in adverse groups. 3,13,16,26,27 In hospitals, the ambulation and training of medical patients, however, seem to have an even lower priority in practice than patient nutrition intake.…”

Energy- and protein intake of surgical patients after the implementation of energy dense hospital menus

“…Therefore it is important to make such fortifications in collaboration with the kitchens chefs and, although time-consuming, it may be even beneficial to conduct a sensory evaluation. A recently published intervention study showed that a novel hospital menu which consisted of 23 small dishes enriched with high quality protein powder increased protein intake by around 10 g/d [25].…”