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Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China

BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is very common in elderly patients admitted to the hospital. The aim of our study is to assess the nutritional status of elderly patients and the use of nutritional support in a tertiary care hospital in China and to analyze the impacts of nutritional status and nutritional...

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Autores principales: Lin, Ying-Min, Wang, Min, Sun, Nuan-Xin, Liu, Yan-Yan, Yin, Teng-Fei, Chen, Chen
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30849099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213076
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author Lin, Ying-Min
Wang, Min
Sun, Nuan-Xin
Liu, Yan-Yan
Yin, Teng-Fei
Chen, Chen
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Wang, Min
Sun, Nuan-Xin
Liu, Yan-Yan
Yin, Teng-Fei
Chen, Chen
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description BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is very common in elderly patients admitted to the hospital. The aim of our study is to assess the nutritional status of elderly patients and the use of nutritional support in a tertiary care hospital in China and to analyze the impacts of nutritional status and nutritional support on clinical outcomes. METHODS: Statistical analysis was performed on a sample of 745 elderly patients in the geriatric medicine department of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from March 2012 to March 2015. The Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002) and Mini Nutritional Assessment-short forms (MNA-SF) were utilized for the nutritional risk screening at admission. Personal information, anthropometric measurements, laboratory tests, nutritional support and clinical outcomes were recorded. Comparisons were carried out to analyze impacts on clinical outcomes and prognosis based on incidence rate of nutritional risk, nutritional support rate, and different methods of support. RESULTS: NRS 2002 and MNA-SF were utilized to screen for nutritional risk at admission. The results of this screening were 39.81% and 44.10%, respectively. Based on the results of the MNA-SF, 33.38% of elderly patients were at risk of malnutrition and 5.5% were malnourished. The incidence of nutritional risk in the departments of Gastroenterology, Hematology, and Respiratory were 51.72%, 46.88%, 43.33%, respectively, higher than in other departments. Patients with nutritional risk were more likely to have a longer hospital stay compared to those without (P < 0.05). The nutritional support rate of patients overall was 16.49%, and the ratio of Parenteral nutrition (PN):Enteral nutrition (EN) was 5.13:1. Patients at nutritional risk had an in-hospital support rate of 29.63% and 28.57%, respectively, identified via screening by NRS 2002 and MNA-SF. Nutritional support rate of patients without nutritional risk was 7.8%(35/449) and 6.96%(29/417), respectively. Patients in the departments of Gastroenterology and Hematology had higher rates of nutritional support than patients in other departments. In addition, results showed that in patients with nutritional risk and malnutrition, nutritional support decreased the length of hospital stay (P<0.05). The patients that received nutritional support also had a lower incidence of infectious complications than the patients without nutritional support (NRS 2002 was 6.82%:18.18% and MNA-SF was 9.57%:20.23%)(P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Undernourishment and nutritional risk in elderly patients at hospital admission is a common occurrence. In the current study, the nutritional risk rate in the Gastroenterology department was higher than in other departments. Patients with normal nutritional status were still receiving nutritional support. Overall, there is a need to better apply nutritional support in the clinical treatment of elderly patients. In elderly patients with nutritional risk and malnutrition, nutritional support reduced the length of hospital stay and the incidence of infectious complications.
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spelling pubmed-64077562019-03-17 Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China Lin, Ying-Min Wang, Min Sun, Nuan-Xin Liu, Yan-Yan Yin, Teng-Fei Chen, Chen PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is very common in elderly patients admitted to the hospital. The aim of our study is to assess the nutritional status of elderly patients and the use of nutritional support in a tertiary care hospital in China and to analyze the impacts of nutritional status and nutritional support on clinical outcomes. METHODS: Statistical analysis was performed on a sample of 745 elderly patients in the geriatric medicine department of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from March 2012 to March 2015. The Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002) and Mini Nutritional Assessment-short forms (MNA-SF) were utilized for the nutritional risk screening at admission. Personal information, anthropometric measurements, laboratory tests, nutritional support and clinical outcomes were recorded. Comparisons were carried out to analyze impacts on clinical outcomes and prognosis based on incidence rate of nutritional risk, nutritional support rate, and different methods of support. RESULTS: NRS 2002 and MNA-SF were utilized to screen for nutritional risk at admission. The results of this screening were 39.81% and 44.10%, respectively. Based on the results of the MNA-SF, 33.38% of elderly patients were at risk of malnutrition and 5.5% were malnourished. The incidence of nutritional risk in the departments of Gastroenterology, Hematology, and Respiratory were 51.72%, 46.88%, 43.33%, respectively, higher than in other departments. Patients with nutritional risk were more likely to have a longer hospital stay compared to those without (P < 0.05). The nutritional support rate of patients overall was 16.49%, and the ratio of Parenteral nutrition (PN):Enteral nutrition (EN) was 5.13:1. Patients at nutritional risk had an in-hospital support rate of 29.63% and 28.57%, respectively, identified via screening by NRS 2002 and MNA-SF. Nutritional support rate of patients without nutritional risk was 7.8%(35/449) and 6.96%(29/417), respectively. Patients in the departments of Gastroenterology and Hematology had higher rates of nutritional support than patients in other departments. In addition, results showed that in patients with nutritional risk and malnutrition, nutritional support decreased the length of hospital stay (P<0.05). The patients that received nutritional support also had a lower incidence of infectious complications than the patients without nutritional support (NRS 2002 was 6.82%:18.18% and MNA-SF was 9.57%:20.23%)(P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Undernourishment and nutritional risk in elderly patients at hospital admission is a common occurrence. In the current study, the nutritional risk rate in the Gastroenterology department was higher than in other departments. Patients with normal nutritional status were still receiving nutritional support. Overall, there is a need to better apply nutritional support in the clinical treatment of elderly patients. In elderly patients with nutritional risk and malnutrition, nutritional support reduced the length of hospital stay and the incidence of infectious complications. Public Library of Science 2019-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6407756/ /pubmed/30849099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213076 Text en © 2019 Lin et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lin, Ying-Min
Wang, Min
Sun, Nuan-Xin
Liu, Yan-Yan
Yin, Teng-Fei
Chen, Chen
Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China
title Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China
title_full Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China
title_fullStr Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China
title_full_unstemmed Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China
title_short Screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in China
title_sort screening and application of nutritional support in elderly hospitalized patients of a tertiary care hospital in china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30849099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213076
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