Postoperative Utilization of Oral Nutrition Supplements in Surgical Patients in US Hospitals.
David G A WilliamsTetsu OhnumaVijay KrishnamoorthyKarthik RaghunathanSuela SuloBridget A CassadyRefaat HegaziPaul E WischmeyerPublished in: JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition (2020)
In this large surgical population, inpatient ONS use is most common in older, Caucasian, Medicare patients with high comorbidity burden. Despite increased malnutrition during study period, observed ONS prescription rate did not increase. Our data indicate current ONS utilization in surgical patients, even coded with malnutrition, is limited and is a critical perioperative quality improvement opportunity.