title: [Prevalence of malnutrition in not critically ill inpatients].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Malnutrition is a frequent issue in our hospitals, and it is associated with an increase in morbi- mortality and financial costs, together with a decline in the patients' quality of life. This study is aimed at establishing the prevalence of malnutrition in our health centre, as much at admission as at discharge.
  
  
  METHODS
  Transversal observational study assessing 277 adult patients, who were admitted consecutively, and applying the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) in the first 48 hours from admission and then again at discharge. Cancer patients were also submitted the Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) and the Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF) was applied to the population of 65 and over.
  
  
  RESULTS
  32.49% of patients were at malnutrition risk according to the results of NRS-2002 at admission. This percentage increased up to 40.98% at discharge. The NRS-2002 showed that 31.15% of cancer patients presented with nutritional risk; however, according to VGS-GP, 52.54% of the cases presented with nutritional risk to a certain extent (38.98% with moderate malnutrition and 13.56% with serious malnutrition). Among patients aged 65 and over, 29.31% were considered at risk according to the NRS-2002; the MNA-SF revealed nutritional alteration in 70.35% (54.65% with malnutrition risk, 15.7% with malnutrition). There are different groups of patients: 65 years old and over, transferred from the emergency department, multi-medicated, cancer patients and patients with heart failure, who present with a higher risk of nutritional deterioration at admission (p<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a very high percentage of patients at nutritional risk in our centre, as much at admission as at discharge. It is therefore necessary to install a systematic screening of the nutritional status for all inpatients.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: María Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Fernández López
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fidalgo Baamil
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Farmacia Hospitalaria. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López Doldán
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: María Luisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Bardasco Alonso
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: María Trinidad
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: de Sas Prada
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Apoyo a la Investigación. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: Fiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lagoa Labrador
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Apoyo a la Investigación. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: María Jesús
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: García García
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición. CHUO. Ourense. España.. maria.teresa.fernandez.lopez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mato Mato
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D015995:Prevalence; D018570:Risk Assessment