What do systematic reviews say?

Dietary advice vs dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements

Dietary advice may leads to lower complications compared with dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements (low certainty).

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 0.75 [0.56, 0.99]
  3 studies · 317 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs no advice

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 148 participants
  Low

Dietary advice plus supplements vs no dietary advice plus no supplements

Dietary advice plus supplements may leads to lower complications compared with no dietary advice plus no supplements (low certainty).

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 0.42 [0.2, 0.89]
  1 study · 50 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs oral nutritional supplements

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  Studies not reported
  No studies found

Dietary advice plus supplements vs no advice

Dietary advice plus supplements if required showed no clear difference in complications 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 0.56 [0.22, 1.46]
  2 studies · 280 participants
  Low