Adherence to hospital nutritional status monitoring and reporting guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Aims of the study

Despite the widespread existence of guidelines regarding undernutrition monitoring and reporting, there is scarce information whether they are followed. We aimed to evaluate the adherence to guidelines regarding undernutrition monitoring and reporting as well as their determinants in a university hospital.

Methods

Retrospective analysis of discharged patients with data on Nutritional Risk Screening score (NRS-2002) from the department of internal medicine of the Lausanne University Hospital for years 2013-14. Adherence to the hospital monitoring guidelines, i.e.: 1) discharged patients with NRS-2002 score≥3 should have prealbumin levels measured, and 2) discharged patients with prealbumin levels<0.20 g/l should be rechecked 7 days afterwards, was assessed.

SUBMITTER: Khalatbari-Soltani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6150473 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature