Determinación del riesgo de desnutrición mediante el Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002) en pacientes que ingresan a las salas de Medicina Interna del Hospital Luis Vernaza en el periodo de noviembre 2017 a febrero 2018.

Abstract

Hospital malnutrition constitutes a major public health concern worldwide being diagnosed and placed in the medical records in a few cases. The identification and correctly nutrition assessment depend of the medicalnutritional treatment that was offered to the patient. Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002) is using a validated tool with a simple technique to rapidly identify hospitalized patients caring nutritional status. The aim of the following study is to determine the risk of malnutrition to the patients hospitalized in the internal medicine at hospital admission by using the Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002). It is a cross-sectional quantitative observational descriptive prospective and non-experimental study, where the variables weight, height, body mass index, age, hospital stay, type of disease, dietetic ingestion and nutritional risk were used. A population (n=60) of patients to the internal medicine who met the inclusion criteria were taken. From the data obtained by nutritional screening, the existence of nutritional risk in patients hospitalized from admission to internal medicine of Luis Vernaza Hospital thus demonstrating the validity of the hypothesis. To conclude, Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002) is the best validated assessment tool when it comes to identifying patients at risk of malnutrition at hospital admission, they should be evaluated by nutritionist who provides the appropriate nutrition therapy.