Desnutrición Hospitalaria / Nosocomial Malnutrition
Prensa méd. argent
;
96(10): 653-659, dic. 2009. graf
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS
| ID: lil-591665
ABSTRACT
Hospitalary malnutrition is a highly prevalent entity. Hospitalized patients with severe malnutrition usually show a high morbimortality. Many severe malnutritions inside the hospital could be avoided. The adequate and early nutritional support can mitigate or even spare a severe malnutrition. The introduction of a nutritions support team management in a community hospital is a favorable cost/beneficial resource. Also the possibility of a domiciliary nutritional support, should be a feasibe practice in a high complexity hospital. Still remains as an ethical dilemma to determine when a patient should be considered as terminal and when the nutritional support - even with low complexity and low costis a trifling therapeutics.
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Main subject:
Patient Care Team
/
Nutrition for Vulnerable Groups
/
Economic Indexes
/
Kwashiorkor
/
Protein-Energy Malnutrition
/
Nutrition Policy
/
Malnutrition
/
Nutrition Therapy
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Feeding Behavior
/
Food Service, Hospital
Type of study:
Etiology study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Prensa méd. argent
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2009
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Argentina
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidad de Buenos Aires/AR
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