Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital Dr. Verdi Cevallos Balda. Portoviejo. Provincia de Manabí. 2011.

Abstract

ELAN Ecuador - the Malnutrition-hospital study. "Dr. Verdi Cevallos Balda "Portoviejo. Manabi Province 2011. It aimed determine the prevalence of hospital malnutrition and its determinants sociodemographic, clinical-surgical, hospitalization condition and quality of Attention. Which aims to be part of the database ELANECUADOR. To evaluate 150 patients, hospital Nutrition Survey was used and Subjective Global Assessment method. Using the program JMP 5.1, using measures of central tendency and dispersion as average, average, highest and lowest values, crosstabs or odds and Tukey test. the prevalence rate was determined IHM, of which more than 50% of patients were male, the average age was 49 years, mostly They belong to the popular strata under with a level of elementary education. Statistical tests conclude that IHM is the 64.7% of these 5.3% are severely malnourished patients, concluding they keep important relationship with age, sex, education level, socioeconomic status, weight loss the last two weeks, intake food, gastrointestinal symptoms and days of stay. For early detection of malnutrition, as to classification nutritional risk and subsequent care, recommended application validated screening tools very low cost and high efficiency They have a great impact on the health and economy of health services what is the Subjective Global Assessment (EGS).