Characteristics of Hospital Stays Involving Malnutrition, 2013

Review
In: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Briefs [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2006 Feb. Statistical Brief #210.
2016 Sep.

Excerpt

This Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Brief presents national estimates on the characteristics of malnutrition reported during nonmaternal and nonneonatal hospital inpatient stays in 2013. Although malnutrition can include high caloric intake associated with overweight and obesity when defined broadly as nutritional imbalance, this Statistical Brief examines undernutrition only.

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