Nutritional Risk Screening and Body Composition in COVID-19 Patients Hospitalized in an Internal Medicine Ward.
Rosaria Del GiornoMassimo QuarenghiKevyn StefanelliSilvia CapelliAntonella GiagulliLara QuarleriDaniela StehrenbergerNicola OssolaRita MonottiLuca GabuttiPublished in: International journal of general medicine (2020)
Present findings confirm the clinical utility of NRS-2002 to assess nutritional risk in patients with COVID-19 at hospital admission and in predicting LOS, and that bioimpedance does not seem to add further predictive value. An early detection of nutritional risk has to be systematically included in the management of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in internal medicine wards.