Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital Teófilo Dávila, Machala. provincia de El Oro. 2011.

Abstract

The Hospital Malnutrition study: ELAN-Ecuador. Hospital "Theophilus Davila" Machala. Province of El Oro 2011. This work was done to determine the prevalence of hospital malnutrition and associated factors: socio-demographic, clinical condition surgical, hospitalization and quality of care in an institution of the Ministry of Public Health. With a cross-sectional design, 150 patients over 18 years with hospital stay of 24 hours in the areas of clinical and surgery were included. It was applied two surveys: Subjective Global Assessment and Hospital Nutrition Survey. Statistical analysis was performed with the program JMP V.5.1. The average age was 42.1 ± 19.6 years (range: 18-96 years) and sex distribution slightly higher for males (52.7%). The hospital stay was 5.07 days and an average of 2.6 days of fasting. The weight loss average was 6.62% (range: 0 to 23.8%). The study concluded that the prevalence of hospital malnutrition was 40.7%, where 4.7% are severely malnourished. The nutritional quality of care was fair and poor in 46.6% of patients. Advanced age, prolonged hospitalization, digestive diseases and hospitalization in clinical service were factors significantly associated with malnutrition (P <0.05). It is suggested to form a group of highly trained nutritional support to collect and treat specific cases in specialized facilities.