Operational recommendations on nutrition management for elderly inpatients with COVID-19
10.3760/cma.j.cn115822-20230112-00008
- VernacularTitle:新型冠状病毒感染老年住院患者营养管理建议
- Author:
Junren KANG
1
;
Kang YU
;
Lin KANG
;
Fang WANG
Author Information
1. 中国医学科学院 北京协和医学院 北京协和医院临床营养科 100730
- Keywords:
COVID-19;
Elderly inpatients;
Malnutrition;
Sarcopenia;
Nutrition management
- From:
Chinese Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2023;31(1):48-53
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Elderly inpatients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are often at nutritional risk and at higher risk of critical disease. The standardized nutrition treatment could effectively improve the nutritional status, quality of life, and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients, and is an important component of the comprehensive management of COVID-19. The individualized nutrition diagnosis, treatment and monitoring should be conducted in compliance to standard procedures of medical nutrition therapy, with consideration of the clinical characteristics of elderly COVID-19 inpatients. The Department of Clinical Nutrition at Peking Union Medical College Hospital has integrated the latest clinical nutrition guidelines and clinical practice of nutrition support of COVID-19, with the aim to provide evidence-based, concise and practical recommendations on nutritional management for elderly inpatients with COVID-19. The recommendations here are to inform effective and standardized nutrition support practice.
