Do preoperative nutritional interventions improve outcomes in malnourished patients undergoing elective surgery?

Medical Nutrition Terminology and Regulations in the United States and Europe—A Scoping Review: Report of the ISPOR Nutrition Economics Special Interest Group

“…Again, these criteria had different thresholds among the records (Table 3). Specifically developed tools for assessing malnutrition that include a combination of criteria were also used, such as the Nutritional Risk Index [38,39], the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool [40], or BMI ranges combined with at least 5% or 7.5% weight loss under various time frames [41e43].…”