ReviewNutrients2019
Prevalence of Malnutrition in Pediatric Hospitals in Developed and In-Transition Countries: The Impact of Hospital Practices.
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- Is Undernutrition Associated With Deterioration of Outcomes in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): Systematic and Meta-Analysis Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
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- Association between enteral formula type and nutritional failure in critically ill children: A single-center retrospective study.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of Non-Invasive Machine-Learning Screening Models for Pediatric Malnutrition in Hospitalized Children: A Single-Center Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Anthropometric Exclusions in Pediatric Clinical Trials: Implications for Medication Dosing in Malnourished Children.Journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Article
- Budget impact analysis of energy and nutrient-dense oral nutritional formulas for hospitalized pediatric disease-related malnutrition in the Middle East.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Morphofunctional markers to assess disease-related pediatric malnutrition at admission and their association with length of hospital stay.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- A comprehensive mobile nutritional application is associated with improved time efficiency and user experience in managing hospitalized children with malnutrition.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Use of Ultrasound for Body Composition in Assessment in Pediatric Patients: Are There Still Challenges?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Impact of nutritional status on the outcome of critically ill pediatric patients.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2025Article
- Nutrition Support Therapy for Hospitalized Children with Malnutrition: A Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Efficiency analysis of nutritional screening tools for children with congenital heart disease: a retrospective observational study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Complications and clinical factors associated with pediatric percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in a Colombian cohort.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Nutrition-Focused Quality Improvement Programs in Pediatric Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Post-discharge complications and hospital readmissions are associated with nutritional risk and malnutrition status in a cohort of Canadian pediatric patients.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Impact of Early Enteral Nutrition on the Hospital Stay of Pediatric Patients Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2024Article
- Food insecurity, environment, institutional quality, and health outcomes: evidence from South Asia.Globalization and health · 2024Article
- Nutritional biomarkers as predictors of clinical outcomes between COVID-19 severity groups in a tertiary government hospital.Clinical nutrition ESPEN · 2023Article
- Implementation of new indicators of pediatric malnutrition and comparison to previous indicators.International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Presently, undernutrition still goes undetected in pediatric hospitals despite its association with poor clinical outcomes and increased annual hospital costs, thus affecting both the patient and the health care system. The reported prevalence of undernutrition in pediatric patients seeking care or hospitalized varies considerably, ranging from 2.5 to 51%. This disparity is mostly due to the diversity of the origin of populations studied, methods used to detect and assess nutritional status, as well as the lack of consensus for defining pediatric undernutrition. The prevalence among inpatients is likely to be higher than that observed for the community at large, since malnourished children are likely to have a pre-existent disease or to develop medical complications. Meanwhile, growing evidence indicates that the nutritional status of sick children deteriorates during the course of hospitalization. Moreover, the absence of systematic nutritional screening in this environment may lead to an underestimation of this condition. The present review aims to critically discuss studies documenting the prevalence of malnutrition in pediatric hospitals in developed and in-transition countries and identifying hospital practices that may jeopardize the nutritional status of hospitalized children.
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