Relationship of Nutritional Intervention with the Days of Hospital Stay in Patients with Malnutrition

Abstract

Disease malnutrition affects a high number of hospitalized patients that causes a prolonged hospital stay due to recovery delay. With the objective of determining the relationship of nutritional intervention with the days of hospital stay in patients with malnutrition admitted to the Hospital de Clinics, Faculty of Medical Sciences - National University Asunción between 2015 and 2021,
a retrospective descriptive observational study was conducted Transverse cutting that included 49 records of interned patients of which 30 corresponded to women and 19 to men, the average age in women was 53.7 ± 18.9 years and for men of 50.7 ± 17.9 years. The results show the presence of protein calorical malnutrition in 53.1% of patients through the Nutritional Risk Screenig 2002, 26.5% showed protein caloric malnutrition by subjective global assessment, overweight was observed in 8.2% of patients, as well as Obesity and Normopese in 6.1%. After associating the nutritional intervention that the interned patients received, association could be evidenced in those who remained less interned, on the other hand, there was no relationship between age, weight and body mass index with hospital stay. It could be demonstrated that nutritional intervention through nutritional support can favor the improvement of the patient and a lower hospital stay, however, it cannot be widely confirmed by the reduced number of records
to which it could be accessed.