title: Oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status among inpatients admitted in a tertiary hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Malnutrition is very common in hospitals and inpatients with prescription of oral nutritional supplementation have improvement of the nutritional status.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To detect the total acceptance rate and a possible association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was carried out among 398 inpatients. Fifteen types of supplements were analyzed and nutritional status was detected by Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). Rest-ingestion index (RI) was obtained and Modified Poisson's regression was used to detect associations between nutritional status and intake of nutritional supplements.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prevalence of malnutrition was 43.7% and overall acceptance of supplements was around 75%. Industrialized supplements have better acceptance among well-nourished inpatients and patients who ate less than 80% of the supplement offered (industrialized or homemade) had higher risk for malnutrition (48%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was an association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status, despite the good acceptance rate.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lammel Ricardi
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marcadenti
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perocchin de Souza
authors.forename: Anelise
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Siviero Ribeiro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009752:Nutritional Status / Q000502:physiology*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D015995:Prevalence; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*