Abstract

RUIZ DOMINGUEZ, Rosario; GONZALES GALLEGOS, Max  and  LUNA MAMANI, Fanny. ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF PATIENTS HEMATOLOGIST-ONCOLOGIST. Rev. Méd. La Paz [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.2, pp.26-33. ISSN 1726-8958.

The study was performed in order to evaluate the nutritional status of onco-haematological patients at a referral hospital of the social security system. It was a observational, descriptive and cross-sectional in 150 patients hospitalized in the Oncology and Hematology departments, in the Materno Infantil Hospital of the Caja Nacional de Salud. The evaluation of nutritional status was performed by the Subjective Global Assessment Scale as well as determination of IMC. The description was carried out by means offrequency, total percentages, averages, median and standard deviation; the frequencies of association were analyzed using the Chi square test (X²); 30% of patients were classified as "severe malnutrition", 52.7% as "with malnutrition risk" and 17.3% as "with good nutritional condition". Cancer patients hospitalized at the Materno Infantil Hospital have high frequency of "malnutrition risk" and "severe malnutrition." The Subjective Global Assessment Scale is a valid method of initial nutritional evaluation; it is sensitive, specific and easy to carry out.

Keywords : Cancer; nutritional condition; malnutrition risk; severe malnutrition.

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