Prevalence of patients at nutritional risk in Danish hospitals

Clinical Nutrition : Official Journal of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Henrik Højgaard RasmussenAnne Wengler

Abstract

Undernutrition is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and is common in patients admitted to hospital. We examined (1) the prevalence of patients at nutritional risk, (2) whether these patients were identified by the staff, and (3) whether a nutritional plan and monitoring was made for patients at nutritional risk. A cross-sectional study in 15 randomly selected departments (>200 beds, departments of internal medicine, gastro- and orthopedic surgery) in Danish hospitals. The patients were characterized by scoring the components 'undernutrition' and 'severity of disease' in 4 categories (absent, mild, moderate or severe). The patient could have a score of 0-3 for each component (undernutrition and severity of disease), and any patient with a total score > or = 3 was considered at nutritional risk. Undernutrition was evaluated by 3 variables (BMI, recent weight loss, recent food intake). Out of 590 patients, 39.9% were nutritionally at risk, with the highest prevalence in departments of gastro-surgery (57%). BMI was <18.5 in 10.9%, and between 18.5 and 20.5 in 16.7% of the patients. In 7.6% the records contained information about nutritional risk, in 14.2% about a nutrition plan of which only 55.2% included a plan fo...Continue Reading

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