Bibliographic citations
Costillo, K., (2018). Incidencia de desnutrición en pacientes que ingresaron al servicio de medicina de un hospital de Lima Metropolitana, 2016 [Tesis, Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11955/396
Costillo, K., Incidencia de desnutrición en pacientes que ingresaron al servicio de medicina de un hospital de Lima Metropolitana, 2016 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11955/396
@misc{renati/974226,
title = "Incidencia de desnutrición en pacientes que ingresaron al servicio de medicina de un hospital de Lima Metropolitana, 2016",
author = "Costillo Ratti, Kelly",
publisher = "Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón",
year = "2018"
}
Hospital malnutrition is a common problem in the hospitalized patient. It generates greater morbidity and mortality, a worst response to treatment, longer stay and hospital costs. In this regard, a descriptive, observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study was done. This research has as main objective to show the incidence of hospital malnutrition in patients in the Department of medicine from a hospital in Metropolitan Lima, the study sample were both sexes adults over 18 to 79 years of age, that met the criteria for inclusion, placed in the service of medicine; to this end, it was done a screening at admission, using the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) in patients, then we collected anthropometric and biochemical data from the medical histories. This data is placed in a database in Microsoft Excel and got analyzed with the SPSS version 22 through statistics. The results obtained were: the 100% patients assessed, the 51.0% was admitted with incidence of malnutrition assessed by VGS, being more prevalent in the female gender. 81.6% of the patients were by the normal weight, followed by overweight with 14.3%. The visceral malnutrition was 77.6%, the anemia was a 61.2% being higher in the female gender.
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