ClinNutr.Jun;34(3):-40.

Diagnosticcriteriaformalnutrition-AnESPENConsensusStatement.

CederholmT,BosaeusI,BarazzoniR,BauerJ,VanGossumA,KlekS,MuscaritoliM,NyulasiI,OckengaJ,SchneiderSM,devanderSchuerenMA,SingerP.

DepartmentsofGeriatricMedicine,UppsalaUniversityHospitalandPublicHealthandCaringSciences,ClinicalNutritionandMetabolism,UppsalaUniversity,Uppsala,Sweden.

ClinicalNutritionUnit,SahlgrenskaUniversityHospitalandUniversityofGothenburg,Gothenburg,Sweden.

DepartmentofMedical,SurgicalandHealthSciences,UniversityofTrieste,Trieste,Italy.

DepartmentofGeriatricMedicine,CarlvonOssietzkyUniversitat,Oldenburg,Germany.

DepartmentofGastroenterology,ClinicofIntestinalDiseasesandNutritionalSupport,HopitalErasme,FreeUniversityofBrussels,Brussels,Belgium.

GeneralandOncologySurgeryUnit,StanleyDudricksMemorialHospital,Skawina,Poland.

DepartmentofClinicalMedicine,SapienzaUniversityofRome,Rome,Italy.

DepartmentofNutritionandDieteticsandDepartmentofMedicine,MonashUniversityCentralClinicalSchool,Prahran,Australia.

DepartmentofGastroenterology,Hepatology,Endocrinology,andNutrition,KlinikumBremenMitte,Bremen,Germany.

DepartmentofGastroenterologyandClinicalNutrition,UniversityHospitalandUniversityofNiceSophia-Antipolis,Nice,France.

DepartmentofNutritionandDietetics,InternalMedicine,VUUniversityMedicalCenter,Amsterdam,TheNetherlands.

DepartmentofNutrition,SportsandHealth,FacultyofHealthandSocialStudies,HANUniversityofAppliedSciences,Nijmegen,TheNetherlands.

DepartmentofGeneralIntensiveCare,InstituteforNutritionResearch,RabinMedicalCenter,SacklerSchoolofMedicine,TelAvivUniversity,PetahTikva,Israel.

OBJECTIVE:Toprovideaconsensus-basedminimumsetofcriteriaforthediagnosisofmalnutritiontobeappliedindependentofclinicalsettingandaetiology,andtounifyinternationalterminology.

METHOD:TheEuropeanSocietyofClinicalNutritionandMetabolism(ESPEN)appointedagroupofclinicalscientiststoperformamodifiedDelphiprocess,en