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Rev Cubana Pediatr 2012; 84 (3)

Quality of nutritional care in the hospitalized pediatric patient

Betancourt GY, Espino DRM, Reyes MY, del Pozo LDA

Language: Spanish
References: 24
Page: 265-274
PDF size: 57.23 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: nutrition is an important element of the present therapy of patients and has social impact, so the health professional staff should take it as a therapeutic support in the care of a patient.
Objective: to evaluate the quality of nutritional care of the hospitalized pediatric patient.
Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in which the sample was made up of 50 patients. A Formulary of Nutritional Care was prepared, which served to register the current state of the nutritional support and thus evaluated the quality of nutritional care.
Results: the nutritional assessment at the time of admission was just made in 18 % of cases and the diagnosis of nutritional state was ignored in 96 % of hospitalized patients. Lab tests of nutritional relevance accounted for just 12 %, whereas the therapeutic actions taken to correct the pathological tests reached 50 %. Weight curves were not followed up, and all the admitted patients kept fasting regimes at hospital over 10 %.
Conclusions: the quality of nutritional care of the hospitalized pediatric patient was poor.


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