Riesgo de desnutrición en pacientes hospitalizados del Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo de Guayaquil en noviembre 2024.

Abstract

Hospital malnutrition is a common problem that prolongs length of stay and increases the risk of complications and death. Factors such as underlying diseases, low caloric and protein intake, biological and clinical factors of patients and lack of nutritional support contribute to malnutrition. For this reason, the present research was carried out with the objective of determining the risk of malnutrition in hospitalized patients of the Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado de Guayaquil in November 2024. The study is descriptive, non-experimental and cross-sectional, focused on a sample of 40 hospitalized patients who participated in the international project Nutrition Day 2024, at the Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo, who were studied for risk factors for hospital malnutrition entered in the Nutritional Day study database. The results showed that 75% of the patients were at risk of malnutrition, a high percentage of the patients presented biological and clinical factors that predisposed them to hospital malnutrition, and 100% of the patients received nutritional support.