Desnutrición Intrahospitalaria: ELAN - Ecuador. Hospital Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, Área N. 2 Quevedo, Provincia de Los Ríos, 2011.

Abstract

Diverse studies have determined a high prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients, (50, 2%) ELAN LATIN AMERICA, The hospital malnutrition is a problem at world level that not alone it influences in the patient's clinical condition, but rather it increases the morbi rates - mortality that is correlated with the time of internment and the high medical costs. To determine the prevalence of malnutrition in the rooms of hospitalization of internal medicine and surgery of the Hospital Quevedo Area 2, by means of the employment of the Subjective Global Evaluation (EGS). I study traverse with a population of 150 patients hospitalized with a minimum of 24 hours of hospitalization, with an number 61 men's average and 89 women understood with a 18 year-old minimum age until the 80 years that were classified with three scale types, well nurtured, moderately undernourished and gravely undernourished, for their evaluation you uses the (EGS). Results: They were patient moderately undernourished (36, 7%) and gravely undernourished (14, 7%). The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients is in 51, 4%. The lack of knowledge has more than enough the personnel's nutrition I prescribe and of an established norm to carry out the patient's nutritional evaluation; they don't allow an appropriate intervention. For that we recommend using the subjective global assessment method to detect which patients were later performed a more complete assessment of nutritional status.