Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital Darío Machuca Palacios. La Troncal. Provincia del Cañar. 2011.

Abstract

The prevalence of malnutrition and its de terminants social and demographic, clinical condition, surgical, hospitalization, and quality of care in the Hospital's Core Dario Palacios Machuca was determinated in this study. With a cross section and a non experimental method on 150 patients over 18 years with a history open and definite diagnosis was performed. The study was conducted in two phases. The first was an audit of medical records, where the quality of nutritional care was determined. The second was related to a nutritional assessment by Su bjective Global Assessment Survey. Hospital Malnutrition prevalence was 10% (8.7% of patients were considered as moderately malnourished and 1.3% were severely malnourished). 35% were male and 65% female. The 59.3% had primary education and 81.3% came from a popular low stratum. The nutritional quality of care was acceptable by 76% due the fact that 65.3% had their weight recorded and 79.3% their size. The hospital patient stay was on average 2.6 days and the fasting days were 1.5 days. The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients with nursing home quality was low with an acceptable nutritional care. This study also demonstrated that age was related to the nutritional status of patients. To reduce the prevalence of Hospital Malnutrition at the country level, the government through its ministries had to define policies that can counter this problem in order to reduce the risk of possible morbidity due malnutrition.