Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital del IESS de Manta. Provincia de Manabí. 2011.

Abstract

The prevalence of Hospital Malnutrition as well the social and demographic determinants, clinical surgical condition, and quality of care at the Hospital IESS, city of Manta, were determined. The study design was performed in a not experimental and cross-sectional type. It included 150 patients, aged 18 years and hospital stay longer than 24 hours, with medical history and open diagnosis defined. It was applied two surveys: Subjective Global Assessment and the Hospital Nutrition. The first survey provided information on the nutritional status and the second demographic, clinical, surgical and hospital care quality. Statistical analysis was performed using the JMP V.5.1. program. Hospital Malnutrition prevalence was 28% where 22.7% was moderate and 5.3% were severe malnutrition. It included 63% male and 37% female, where 36.7% came from popular strata and 43.3% had primary schooling. Patients with an acceptable quality of nutritional care were 81%. It was identified statistically significant relationships (p <0.05) between malnutrition, age and days of hospitalization. It is recommended to form a multidisciplinary team of nutritional care to improve service quality and patient health. Besides is recommended to decrease fasting days in order to not unbalance the immune status of the patient and body weight.