Nutrition therapy and outcomes in hospitalized children

Abstract

Nutrition deficiencies affect children in all healthcare settings. Malnutrition has been defined as an imbalance between nutrient requirements and nutrient provision and includes both overnutrition and undernutrition. 1 The challenges facing patients on either end of this spectrum of malnutrition can be quite diverse. The prevalence of malnutrition, specifically undernutrition, in hospitalized children has been