Reyes FI, et al. - Among hospitalized children with cerebral palsy (CP) in the United States, researchers described the prevalence, trends, sociodemographic and clinical factors connected with a coded diagnosis of malnutrition (CDM). For this cross-sectional study, they used information from the 2002 to 2015 National Inpatient Sample database and limited the analysis to hospitalized children with CP between 2 and 17 years of age. Investigators found that among hospitalized children with CP, the average documented CDM rate was 7.9%; this almost doubled during the period of study. The model suggests that there were increased odds of documented malnutrition associated with younger age, non-white ethnicity, lower income, and non-private insurance/payer status. Higher CDM rates were associated with concomitant inpatient diagnoses of epilepsy, dysphagia, scoliosis, reflux, and constipation. In hospitalized patients with CP, the authors concluded that the CDM rate is well below the estimated clinical prevalence of 30% to 40%.