Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital Regional Isidro Ayora Cueva. Provincia de Loja. 2011.

Abstract

Hospital Malnutrition: ELAN-regional hospital Isidro Ayora ECUADOR Cueva. Loja. Loja Province. 2011. The design study of this work was cross-sectional, with a sample of 150 patients aged 18 years and over 24 hours of hospitalization in internal medicine and general surgery. Data collection was performed using the Hospital Nutrition survey and Subjective Global Assessment survey. With the JMP 5.1 demo program a single variable analysis for nominal and ordinal variable was performed. Besides the calculation of the percentage of frequency, continuous variable measures of central tendency and dispersion, bivariable contingency table, chi square and ANOVA averages were calculated. The results were: well nourished 66.7%, 26.0% moderate and 7.3% severe malnutrition. The average age was 53 years of those the 61.3% had primary education. The 58.7% were under popular strata. The 29% were admitted for digestive diseases to internal medicine, averaging six days of hospitalization and 2 days of fasting. The value of serum albumin was 2.8 g / dl. The 96% of patients had no record of nutritional status. The nutritional quality of hospital care was regular. As conclusion, it was observed that exist malnutrition in the regional hospital Isidro Ayora with prevalence values of 33.3% associated with internal medicine (p = 0.001). Increasing age (p = 0.001), chronic diseases (p = 0.01) and regular hospital nutrition attention (p = 0.03). It is recommend the implementation of nutritional assessment as well the nutritional practices on hospitalized patients in order to diagnose and treat according the their nutritional status.