Brieux HFM, Kaminker D, Campos F, Guillen S, Alejandris J, Luna D, Baum A, de Quirós FGB. Nutritional Alert in hospitalized patients.
Stud Health Technol Inform 2014;
205:697-701. [PMID:
25160276]
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Abstract
UNLABELLED
The objective of the study is to assess a nutritional risk alert using an Informatics System in hospitalized patients versus the conventional methodology.
METHOD
We studied 400 medical patients at the Belgrano Hospital Critical Care Unit. We considered two groups of 200 patients. In the first the group (Control Group), nutritional risk was diagnosed in a traditional way. In the second group (Alarm Group), nutritional risk was diagnosed with an alert system. The alert was triggered when a patient showed low levels of, at least, two of the following variables: albumin, cholesterol, triglyceride, lymphocyte or low body mass index (BMI).
RESULTS
Nutritional risk was detected in 20.3% of the Control Group patients while, in the Alert Group, nutritional risk was detected in 34.3% of the patients; the difference between the two groups was significant (p<0.001), with a sensitivity rate of 99% and a specificity rate of 98%.
CONCLUSION
Malnutrition is more easily detected when using an alert system.
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