Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca. Provincia del Azuay.. 2011.

Abstract

The research hospital malnutrition:elan-ecuador: hospital "Vicente Corral Moscoso" of cuenca. Azuay province 2011. Was conducted in order to establish the hospital malnutrition prevalenceand its social and demographic determinants clinical and surgical condition and quality of nutritional care. The study design was cross-sectional with a non experimental method. A sample of1 50 patients inclinicalareasand surgeryover 18 years witha hospital staylonger than 24hours were measured. They hadmedical historyopenly anddefinite diagnosis.Thepatientsgave theirwritten consent to participate. The datawere obtained byreviewing medical records and applying twosurveys: Hospital Nutrition Surveyand Subjective Global Assessment Survey. The data were analyzedin the programJMP5.1 and the measures of central tendency anddispersion were calculated. The prevalenceof malnutrition was 30.7%, being more frequentin patients over 53 years. The average hospital staywas 2days in patients with and with outmalnutrition,but morethan 8 days staywas only observedin patients with malnutrition. Differences between meanage and hospital stay were statistically significant. In this study a statistically significant relationship between nutritional status andvariables such asgender, education status l and hopitalization was not found. Concludes that hospital malnutrition is related to patient´s age and hospital stay. It is recommended to include patient´s assessmentin the integral comprehensive clinical assessmentthrough permanent training programs for Health personnel.