Adherence to hospital nutritional status monitoring and reporting guidelines

Saman Khalatbari-Soltani and Pedro Marques-Vidal

PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-13

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 4 [1.97 (1.47–2.64)], nutritional management [3.80 (2.85–5.07)], and adherence to the monitoring guideline [3.33 (2.35–4.71)]. Conclusions: Our results show a poor adherence to guidelines regarding undernutrition monitoring and reporting, possibly due to lack of training, staff, and time.

Date: 2018
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