Malnutrition: A skeleton in the health care closet
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 11:40
in Health & Medicine
Many elderly Australians are either admitted to hospital suffering malnutrition, or become malnourished while in hospital, which increases hospital length of stay and health care costs. According to one expert, malnutrition often goes undiagnosed and untreated as it is not considered a clinical priority in hospitals and aged care settings.