Podcast

Evaluation Of Nutritional Support & In-hospital Mortality In Patients With Malnutrition

Publication Date: 17 March 2021

Presenter(s): Nina Kaegi-Braun

Location: Aarau, Switzerland

In this 15-minute podcast, Nina Kaegi-Braun, MD, shares the results of a cohort study she and her colleagues conducted to evaluate nutritional support and in-hospital mortality in patients with malnutrition in Switzerland. The results of this study were published in the January 2021 edition of The JAMA Open Network.

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Presenter Bio(s):

Nina Kaegi-Braun, MD

Resident
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Clinical Nutrition
Kantonsspital Aarau
Aarau, Switzerland

Dr. Nina Kaegi-Braun was born in Switzerland and studied Medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is currently a resident in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition at the Kantonsspital Aarau in Switzerland. She has a special interest in clinical nutrition and is part of the research team of Prof. Dr. Philipp Schuetz, who was the principal investigator of the EFFORT trial. This is the largest-yet randomized-controlled trial looking at clinical effects of nutritional support in malnourished medical ward patients and has just been published in the Lancet recently.

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