Screening nutricional en pacientes quirúrgicos al ingreso hospitalario: prevalencia de desnutrición / Nutritional screening in surgical patients during admission: prevalence of malnutrition

ABSTRACT

Nosocomial desnutrition is a severe problem of world public health whose prevalence rounds between 30 to 50%. To assume the responsibility of an early detection of the patients at risk for this problem, an adequate nutritional supply is the great challenge that the health team should assume, in order to discard the nosocomial desnutrition as an "iatrogenic disease"