Malnutrition prevalence and precision in nutritional care differed in relation to hospital volume – a cross-sectional survey

Table 3 Point prevalence of risk of undernutrition (UN) and overweight among the studied patients.

	Hospitals
	Large sized	Middle sized	Small sized	P-value
	n = 1197	n = 824	n = 370
Criteria for UN-risk, %
Eating difficulties according To MEOF-II	58.2	50.4	42.5	< 0.0005 ^{a, b, c}
Low BMI	22.3	19.9	17.2	0.145
Unintentional weight loss	40.2	34.1	27.2	0.001 ^{a, b}
Fulfilling UN risk criteria, %				< 0.0005 ^{a, b}
No criteria – no UN risk	31.0	35.2	47.3
One criteria – low UN risk	35.0	38.6	31.1
Two criteria – moderate UN risk	26.4	21.1	17.7
Three criteria – high UN risk	7.6	5.1	3.9
Overweight, %				0.102
No overweight	61.8	57.4	57.8
Grade 1, overweight	26.0	27.0	31.0
Grade 2, obesity	11.2	14.8	11.2
Grade 3, severe obesity	1.0	0.8	0.0

MEOF-II = Minimal Eating Observation Form – Version II. Missing values in < 10%. Chi-square test, Kruskal Wallis test, Mann Whitney U test
^a first group differs compared to second
^b first group differs compared to third
^c second group differs compared to third group

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