Nutritional Alert in hospitalized patients

BRIEUX, HUMBERTO FERNÁN MANDIROLA; KAMINKER, DIEGO; CAMPOS, FERNANDO; GUILLEN, SEBASTIAN; ALEJANDRIS, JAVIER; LUNA, DANIEL; BAUM, ANALIA; DE QUIRÓS, FERNÁN GONZALEZ BERNALDO

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

IOS Press

Año: 2014 vol. 205 p. 697 - 701

0926-9630

The objective of the study is to assess a nutritional risk alert using an Informatics System in hospitalized patients versus the conventional methodology. Method: we studied 400 medical patients at the Belgrano Hospital Critical Care Unit. We considered two groups of 200 patients. In the first the group (Control Group), nutritional risk was diagnosed in a traditional way. In the second group (Alarm Group), nutritional risk was diagnosed with an alert system. The alert was triggered when a patient showed low levels of, at least, two of the following variables: albumin, cholesterol, triglyceride, lymphocyte or low body mass index (BMI). Results: nutritional risk was detected in 20.3% of the Control Group patients while, in the Alert Group, nutritional risk was detected in 34.3% of the patients; the difference between the two groups was significant (p