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A Report of Synthesis and Interpretation of RCT Data in the Systematic Review of Nutritional Supplementation for Elderly People

Abstract

Hanxu Shi MPH

Introduction: The differences of mortality and weight change between older patients who have received the nutritional supplementation and those without receiving supplementation would be reported from seven studies which included eligibly in the systematic review.

Methods: Using Cochrane risk of bias tool to assess quality of Munk’s study and Tidermark’s study. Outcomes of Mortality and Weight change from these seven studies were extracted and set up in Revman. Moreover, implementing the GRADE approach to determine reliability to the results in these seven studies.

Results: overall evidence showed using nutritional supplementation was favored by participants for the outcome of ‘mortality’, while no supplementation taken was favored by participants for the outcome of ‘weight change’.