What do systematic reviews say?

Dietary advice vs dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements

Dietary advice showed no clear difference in mortality 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 0.92 [0.47, 1.8]
  10 studies · 777 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements

Dietary advice may leads to higher number of people admitted or re‐admitted to hospital 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 1.7 [1.04, 2.77]
  1 study · 114 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  2 studies · 202 participants
  Low

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 dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  14 studies · 931 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  3 studies · 187 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs dietary advice plus oral nutritional supplements

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  4 studies · 321 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs no advice

Dietary advice 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 0.87 [0.26, 2.96]
  7 studies · 574 participants
  Low

Dietary advice vs no advice

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 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 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 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
  10 studies · 802 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
  2 studies · 98 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
  5 studies · 421 participants
  Low

Dietary advice plus supplements vs no dietary advice plus no supplements

Dietary advice plus supplements showed no clear difference in mortality 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 0.91 [0.55, 1.52]
  7 studies · 797 participants
  Low

Dietary advice plus supplements vs no dietary advice plus no 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 dietary advice plus no supplements

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  2 studies · 258 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 plus supplements vs no dietary advice plus no supplements

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  8 studies · 620 participants
  Low

Dietary advice plus supplements vs no dietary advice plus no supplements

• Dietary advice with or without oral nutritional supplements for disease‐related malnutrition in adults 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  3 studies · 130 participants
  Very low