Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Study units

Inclusion criteria

Medical and surgical units in a teaching hospital providing paediatric acute care

Exclusion criteria

Neonatal care units, intensive care units and emergency units

Health care workers

Inclusion criteria

Any hospital staff involved in direct patient care (includes physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, physiotherapists and dieticians)

Population at patient level

Inclusion criteria

Age 1 month to 18 years old

Children recorded as malnourished based on their weight/height and height/age ratios upon hospital entrance, according to the Algoped nutritional risk score

Exclusion criteria

Age under one month, liver or kidney abnormalities, severe heart failure

First weight recorded more than 2 days after admission, first height recorded more than 15 days after admission

Stay less than 2 days