Herramienta de cribado nutricional versus valoración nutricional antropométrica de niños hospitalizados: ¿Cuál método se asocia mejor con la evolución clínica?

Hospitalization contributes to worsening of the nutritional status and malnutrition is associate to increase in morbidity and mortality. The aim of the study was to asses nutritional status/risk using anthropometry and the Screening Tool for Risk on Nutritional Status and Growth (STRONGkids), compar...

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Published inArchivos latinoamericanos de nutrición Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 12 - 20
Main Authors Márquez Costa, María Verónica, Carla Alberici Pastore
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Spanish
Portuguese
Published Caracas José Féliz Chávez Pérez 2015
Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición
Subjects
Babies
Clinical outcomes
Hospitalization
Length of stay
Longitudinal studies
Malnutrition
Medical screening
Nutrition
NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Nutritional status
Pediatrics
Risk factors
malnutrition
hospitalización pediátrica
length of stay
tiempo de estancia
pediatric hospitalization
Cribado nutricional
Nutritional screening
desnutrición
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Summary:Hospitalization contributes to worsening of the nutritional status and malnutrition is associate to increase in morbidity and mortality. The aim of the study was to asses nutritional status/risk using anthropometry and the Screening Tool for Risk on Nutritional Status and Growth (STRONGkids), comparing their results to clinical outcomes. For that propose, was conducted an observational longitudinal study with children up to one month of life, hospitalized in Pediatric ward of a teaching hospital. Nutritional status was assessed by Body Mass Index for age and weight for age. Nutritional risk was classified as high, intermediate or low. The length of stay, clinical outcome and complications were taken of the medical records. This project was approved by the Ethics Committee on Research. Were evaluated 181 children, from both sexes. The median age was 8.8 (IQR 3.3; 26.9) months and the median length of stay was 7 (IQR 4; 10) days. There was 20.8% of malnutrition in children younger than one year. Most of the children (55.3%) were classified as in intermediate nutritional risk. The length of stay was associated to nutritional risk, while anthropometry was associated to only in those younger than one year. There were five infectious complication, not associated to nutritional status/risk. Therefore, nutritional risk was significantly associated to length of stay, showing that STRONGkids was a better method compared to anthropometric nutritional assessment to predict this outcome.
ISSN:0004-0622
2309-5806