Dietary advice plus supplements vs no advice: All‐cause mortality
- Population
- adults with disease‐related malnutrition
- Intervention
- Dietary advice plus supplements
- Comparison
- no advice
- Outcome
- All‐cause mortality
Dietary advice plus supplements if required showed no clear difference in mortality compared with no advice (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Dietary advice plus supplements if required vs no advice Mortality · adults with disease‐related malnutrition Dietary advice plus supplements if required showed no clear difference in mortality compared with no advice (low certainty). Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.82 [0.58, 1.16] | 15 studies · 1261 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
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