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A Novel Facet of In-Hospital Food Consumption Associated with Hospital Mortality in Patients with Scheduled Admission – Addition of a Study Protocol to Test the Existence of Effects of COVID-19 in the Same Study in the Post-COVID-19 Period

Version 1 : Received: 2 July 2024 / Approved: 2 July 2024 / Online: 3 July 2024 (16:23:35 CEST)

How to cite: Miyata, H.; Tsunou, A.; Hokotachi, Y.; Amagai, T. A Novel Facet of In-Hospital Food Consumption Associated with Hospital Mortality in Patients with Scheduled Admission – Addition of a Study Protocol to Test the Existence of Effects of COVID-19 in the Same Study in the Post-COVID-19 Period. Preprints 2024, 2024070299. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.0299.v1 Miyata, H.; Tsunou, A.; Hokotachi, Y.; Amagai, T. A Novel Facet of In-Hospital Food Consumption Associated with Hospital Mortality in Patients with Scheduled Admission – Addition of a Study Protocol to Test the Existence of Effects of COVID-19 in the Same Study in the Post-COVID-19 Period. Preprints 2024, 2024070299. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.0299.v1

Abstract

Background: Humankind have faced unexperienced pandemic events since 2020. After COVID-19 pandemic is calming down, we felt the need to verify whether in-hospital mortality had worsened compared to pre-pandemic conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective: To test the hypothesis that daily food consumption is associated with in-hospital mortality during hospitalization and to provide baseline data to examine the effects of COVID-19 in post-pandemic exists or not. Methods: All hospitalized patients staying in a single institution on the third Thursday of May, August, November, and the following next February were included. Compared data: 1) among four seasons, 2) between age < vs.

Keywords

single-day survey; hospital mortality; hospital food consumption; scheduled admission; seasonality

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Internal Medicine

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