ABSTRACT
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of nutritional risk,malnutrition and application of nutritional support in department of digestive trad in our hospital in Ningbo.Methods: The information of 205 patients were collected in our hospital.Nutrition status was assessed according to Nutrition Risk Screening(NRS) published by ESPEN in 2002.Results: A total of 205 patients were enrolled,and 189 patients(92.2%)underwent NRS 2002.Prevalence of malnutrition was 20.0% and nutritional risk was 32.7%.Totally 18 patients(8.8%) receiving nutritional support had a NRS2002≥3.The PN∶EN ratio was 2.6 ∶1. Conclusion: A large proportion of inpatients were at nutritional risk or malnutrition in our hospital.The application of PN and EN is inappropriate in inpatients.Evidence-based guidelines are required to improve this situation.