Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital de Especialidades Eugenio Espejo, Quito, provincia de Pichincha.. 2011.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of hospital malnutrition and its clinical condition. Also , the surgical condition based on social and demographic determinants and the nutritional subjective global assessment at the Eugenio Espejo Hospital was studied The method applied was carry out on two types of surveys; one based on quality patient care and the second based on the nutritional Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) survey. A single variable analysis was performed to establish the prevalence and the association of the variable effect or result . Later on, a multivariate logistic regression analysis to establish the specific weight of each factor was performed. For the analysis and interpretation of results , the JPM 5 . 1 statistical package was used . Performing the evaluation on 150 patients the results were : 51.3 % were women and48.7 % men . The p atients belong to a low social level with a range of 42.0 %. 58.0%havecompleted primary . According to the SGA, the 50.7 % ar e moderately malnourished . In was found significant differences between patients with malnutrition and social integration ( p =0.0007) . Services in internal medicine, neurosurgery and orthopedics malnourished significant difference ( p =0.0302) were detecte d . There were significant differences between diagnosis and nutritional status( p = 0.0021 ) which have shown significant differences between days of hospitalization and nutritional status( p =0.0021). There was also a significant differences between the quality of care and the nutritional status ( p =0.0168) . It was concluded that the value of hospital malnutrition is within the range of existing prevalence in Latin America . An important factor in hospital malnutrition is the lack of specialized technical equipment in nutritional care , preventing a fast recovery and recommends the sequence of this study.