Abstract
Malnutrition is a significant problem in health care today, not only in the United States, but across the world. It has long been known, but underappreciated, that malnutrition is associated with increased mortality, more complications, and longer hospital length of stay (LOS), which lead to an increase in health care costs.1 Substantial evidence exists that medical nutrition therapy saves lives and reduces morbidity and that nutrition support improves health outcomes and lowers costs.2 The purpose of this article is to update the review of literature on malnutrition and the benefit of enteral nutrition support interventions since publication of a definitive article on the same subject in 1996.3
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