ĐÁNH GIÁ HIỆU QUẢ BƯỚC ĐẦU CAN THIỆP DINH DƯỠNG BẰNG ĐƯỜNG UỐNG TRÊN BỆNH NHÂN SUY DINH DƯỠNG ĐANG ĐIỀU TRỊ TẠI BỆNH VIỆN NHÂN DÂN 115

Abstract

Oral nutritional supplementation may help malnourished patients improve their recovery in terms of early rehabilitation, decreased complications, reduced length of stay in hospital and health care costs. Objective: To assessment the effectiveness of inpatient oral nutritional supplementation in the Public Hospital 115. Methods: a descriptive retrospective study was conducted. Results: The prevalence of participants, who were moderately
and severely undernourished with SGA B and C before intervention was 58.7% and 41.3%. There were no significant differences with reference to serum albumin or physical examination functional parameters at the beginning of study and after supplementing oral drinks. The proportion of non functional impairment was twice after intervention. Prevalence of patients with severe overall impairment decreased from 63.04% to 19.57% after taking the supplements. Comparing to before intervention, after supplementing oral nutrition at the minimum of 7 days, SGA C reduced from 58.75% to 34.78%, SGAA (good nutrition) increased to 23.91%. Conclusion: Due to the limit of interventional duration, no effects have been found in physical examination and laboratory parameters. However, oral nutritional supplement influenced profitably to function and subjective sensations of inpatients.