Original scientific paper

Nutritional Risk Screening in Hospitalized and Haemodialysis Patients

Brankica Mijandrušić Sinčić
Lidija Orlić
Dubravka Eržen Jurišić
Gordana Kenđel
Elena Gombač
Barbara Kvenić
Davor Štimac

Abstract

Malnutrition is an independent risk factor impacting on higher complications and increased length of hospital stay
and costs. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of nutritional risk among patients on regular haemodialysis
(HD) (Group I, N=105) and among the patients at Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Hematology and Clinical
Immunology (Group II, N=652). Cross-sectional nutritional evaluation was done using Nottingham Hospital Screening
Tool (NS). The prevalence of nutritional risk was 9% in Group I and 21% in Group II (p=0.0002). We found statistically
significant larger quantity of malnourished patients among acute internistic patients than among chronic from the same
Group II. Malnutrition among patients on HD didn’t differ statistically to chronic internistic patients. We didn’t found a
significantly higher percentage of nutritional risk among elderly patients (65 years and more). Correlation between body
mass index (BMI) and NS was significant, but weak (r=–0.32). We can conclude that the prevalence of nutritional risk
among HD patients was lower than we had expected. It seems that the screening tool we used is not sensitive enough for
HD patients and needs further investigations.

Keywords

nutritional risk; malnutrition; Nottingham screening tool; haemodialysis

Hrčak ID:

27401

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/27401

Publication date:

10.4.2007.

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