Study - Malnutrition Is Too Rarely Detected in German Hospitals
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A study suggests that malnutrition is too rarely detected in the hospital. This is a problem: sufferers often have a worse prognosis.
In German hospitals malnutrition appears to be severely underdiagnosed in patients.
A third of all patients in clinics do not get enough food – often this remains undiscovered. In doing so, targeted nutrition could improve the forecasts and save up to 55,000 lives per year.
Würzburg – Malnutrition in hospitalized patients in Germany is apparently rarely documented and even less frequently treated with OPS-coded nutritional therapy. This is shown by an analysis of nationwide health insurance data from 2017 to 2024. At the same time, documented malnutrition was associated with a significantly higher...
Published on: 19.08.2026 01:01Author: Martin RückerA good quarter of the hospital patient: female patients are considered malnourished.A data analysis now suggests that clinics recognize only a fraction of those affected – and treat much less. In doing so, they could even prevent deaths by means of targeted nutrition therapy.
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