Outpatient Resource Utilization Of Medicare Cancer Patients With Malnutrition Diagnosis

Rationale: Malnutrition or its risk affects up to 85% of cancer patients either during or after their treatments. Such patients experience poorer health and economic outcomes resulting from prolonged hospitalizations and higher healthcare resource utilization. We assessed the prevalence of diagnosed malnutrition and outpatient resource utilization and associated costs among a large cohort of cancer patients with malnutrition as compared to counterparts without malnutrition diagnosis.