Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital IESS Manuel Ignacio Monteros. Loja, Provincia de Loja. 2011.

Abstract

Hospital Malnutrition: ELAN-EcuadorIESSHospital"Manuel Ignacio Monteros" Loja. Loja Province2011. Malnutrition isa seriousproblem affectingthe Ecuadorian population which includes patients entering hospitals. The present study was done on a non experimental cross method. Thesample consisted of150 patientsaged over18 years old and the information from thepatient records. The variables studiedwere related to a social and demographic andclinicalcondition. Surgical issues, nutritional status and quality of care also were studied. This information wascollectedusing two surveys: Hospital NutritionSurveyand theSubjective Global Assessment Survey. From150patients studied, 62.7% consisted ofmenand 37.3% were women, withages rangingbetween 18and 95 years old. Mostly werehospitalizedinclinicalservice and the 49.3% belongedto ahighpopularstrata. There was found a24.7% ofmalnutrition, where 2.7%of these were found as severe malnutrition.The qualityofhospitalcarewas rated aspoorby78%. While relating nutritional statusvariables with age, gender, underlying diseases and hospital days any statistical significant relationships were found. It was concluded thatthe most common risk factorsassociated withmalnutritionwere age, educational level, days of hospitalization and underlying disease. The qualityofpatient carewas rated aspoor. It was recommended to improve the overall qualityof care of the organization in order to create an early malnutrition detection of all patients admitted.