Impact of nutritional status on length of hospital stay

Nutritional status and length of hospital stay for surgical patients.

Nutritional assessment and length of hospital stay.

CMAJ • NOVEMBER 23, 2010 • 182(17) © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1831 We have intuitively known for a long time that poor nutritional status in disease is associated with mor bidity and mortality. Only recently, however, have studies provided evidence of an association between poor nutritional status and prolonged hospital stay, decreased quality of life, and increased mo...

Impact of socio-economic status on hospital length of stay following injury: a multicenter cohort study

BACKGROUND Injury is second only to cardiovascular disease in terms of acute care costs in North America. One key to improving injury care efficiency is to generate knowledge on the determinants of resource use. Socio-economic status (SES) is a documented risk factor for injury severity and mortality but its impact on length of stay (LOS) for injury admissions is unknown. This study aimed to ex...

[Association between nutritional status, exclusive breastfeeding and length of hospital stay of children].

OBJECTIVE To verify the association between nutritional statuses, exclusive breastfeeding and the hospital stay of children. METHOD Cross-sectional study. Convenience sample of 146 children aged 1-48 months and their caregivers. Data were collected in paediatric units at a university hospital of southern Brazil from January to August 2012. Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficients wer...

Nutritional assessment associated with length of inpatients' hospital stay.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the nutritional status of patients on hospital admission, identify the length of hospital stay and identify the parameters of nutritional assessment that are most closely related with the length of stay (LOS). METHODS A cross-sectional study of 278 hospitalized patients evaluated patients' nutritional status in the 48 hours after admission and their LOS after discharge. ...