Abstract
This chapter reviews the prevalence of hospital undernutrition with particular reference to surgical patients, discusses how nutrition can be assessed and used to predict surgical outcome, considers the physiological penalties of undernutrition and critically presents the evidence on which rational use of nutritional support in surgical patients can be based, with emphasis on randomized controlled trials.
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