Resumen

RODRIGUEZ ARIAS, Orestes Dominador; HODELIN HODELIN, Maria Caridad; GONZALEZ ORTIZ, Mariela  y  FLORES BOLIVAR, Fátima. Diets in hospital facilities . MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.10, pp. 1600-1610. ISSN 1029-3019.

The diet therapy is the branch of the medical therapy in which foods and their nutrients are used with healing purposes in persons suffering from certain disease. With this literature review on the topic, some of the iatrogenesis causes are presented due to inadequate diets indicated in hospitals, which affect the patient's recovery. Among the main aspects that determine this adverse effect caused by this therapy, there are the nonuniformity in the indications of the medical diets in the hospital rooms and the lack of updated knowledge in some professionals of the secondary health care who guide a diet which desagrees with the needs of the affected patient.

Palabras clave : diet therapy; iatrogenesis; secondary health care.

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