Relación entre el estado nutricional y los días de estancia hospitalaria en los pacientes pediátricos del Hospital General Guasmo Sur en el periodo de junio - noviembre 2022.

Abstract

Malnutrition in pediatric patients presents a comorbidity, delay in the clinical evolution is within the most common complications, which contributes to an increase in the days of hospital stay. The objective of this study was to establish whether there is a relationship between the nutritional status at the time of admission and the length of stay in pediatric patients admitted to the Hospital General Guasmo Sur (HGGS) between june-november 2022. The present investigation has a correlational, cross-sectional and quantitative approach. The sample included 417 subjects of both genders from 0 to 15 years old hospitalized in the Pediatrics area. Data was collected by the review of medical records and anthropometric assessment at admission. The nutritional diagnoses were obtained through growth indicators of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Official Mexican Standard (NOM), using standard deviations (SD). The results show that 70% of the patients had normal weight and 30% had a poor nutritional status. The main diagnosis was unspecified acute infection of the lower respiratory tract with 229 cases, protein energy malnutrition was the tenth more prevalent diagnosis. The average length of stay in this study was 5.51 days. Most malnourished patients were hospitalized for up to 5 days, only 41% had a longer stay. The results obtained in this study show that there is no significant relationship between the nutritional status and length of hospital stay.