‘Malnutrition: A serious concern among hospitalized patients’ a cohort study of nutritional screening among admitted patients using GRAZ malnutrition tool- GMT
| العنوان: | ‘Malnutrition: A serious concern among hospitalized patients’ a cohort study of nutritional screening among admitted patients using GRAZ malnutrition tool- GMT |
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| المؤلفون: | Farhat Rehana Malik, Jalwa Javed Farooqi, Laiba Khan, Maheen Khan, Fatima Noor, Maira Khalid |
| المصدر: | International journal of health sciences. :4857-4871 |
| بيانات النشر: | Universidad Tecnica de Manabi, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | General Nursing, Education |
| الوصف: | Objective: To identify the risks, causes, and degree of malnutrition among admitted patients using GRAZ Malnutrition Screening tool with gender and age groups comparison among private and public hospitals. Materials & Methods: A comparative cohort study was conducted upon 385 admitted patients of two Government and private hospitals from 1st Dec- 2019 to 31st March- 2020. A standardized validated tool was used with categories of weight loss within the last 3 months, BMI, changes in appetite, the severity of the disease, and age greater than 65 with a cut-off score of 3. The data was entered and analyzed through SPSS- Version 19 by computing, frequency, percentages, and Chi-Square test, with significant cut-off limit for P-Value was set at 0.05. Results: Among the 385 admitted patients 52.2 % (n= 201) were males and 48 % (n=184) females. The vulnerable age group was 39-58 Year with 40 % (n= 157) while 33.5 % (n= 129) were among 28-38 Year. Only 6 % (n= 21) were under-weight with BMI 3. |
| تدمد: | 2550-696X 2550-6978 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a6104ef23226464ba7ef4c187168a03d https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6ns9.14080 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........a6104ef23226464ba7ef4c187168a03d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 2550696X 25506978 |
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