Abstract

BETANCOURT GUERRA, Yuri; ESPINO DELGADO, Rosa María; REYES MEJIAS, Yanet  and  DEL POZO LOPEZ, Douglas Alberto. Quality of nutritional care in the hospitalized pediatric patient. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2012, vol.84, n.3, pp. 265-274. ISSN 0034-7531.

Introduction: nutrition is an important element of the present therapy of patients and has social impact, so the health professional staff should take it as a therapeutic support in the care of a patient. Objective: to evaluate the quality of nutritional care of the hospitalized pediatric patient. Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in which the sample was made up of 50 patients. A Formulary of Nutritional Care was prepared, which served to register the current state of the nutritional support and thus evaluated the quality of nutritional care. Results: the nutritional assessment at the time of admission was just made in 18 % of cases and the diagnosis of nutritional state was ignored in 96 % of hospitalized patients. Lab tests of nutritional relevance accounted for just 12 %, whereas the therapeutic actions taken to correct the pathological tests reached 50 %. Weight curves were not followed up, and all the admitted patients kept fasting regimes at hospital over 10 %. Conclusions: the quality of nutritional care of the hospitalized pediatric patient was poor.

Keywords : malnutrition at hospital; quality; therapeutic fasting.

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