Oral nutritional interventions in hospitalised older people at nutritional risk: a network meta-analysis of individual participant data

Key Points

• To evaluate the effectiveness of various oral nutritional interventions for older individuals at nutritional risk in hospital settings.
• Conduct a network meta-analysis using individual participant data from various studies
• Include hospitalized older individuals identified as being at nutritional risk
• Analyze different types of oral nutritional interventions
• Identified significant benefits of specific nutritional interventions for improving dietary intake
• Showed variations in effectiveness across different types of interventions
• Highlighted the importance of tailored nutritional support for older hospitalized individuals