Estudio nutricional en pacientes geriátricos (mayores de 65 años) con nutrición enteral ambulatoria, correlación entre patología de base, aporte nutricional y tratamiento farmacológico
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Nutricion Hospitalaria
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Goal: To identify the current status of out-patient enteral nutrition among elderly patients in Galicia: indications, access routes, forms of administration, types of diet, complications, disability status. Assessment of nutritional status and concomitant pharmacological treatment. Methods: Prospective, observational, multi-centric study lasting for one month. Data capture by means of a questionnaire regarding: age, sex, diagnosed pathology leading to nutritional analysis, disability status, current nutritional status, type of diet, months under treatment with NEA (out-patient enteral nutrition in its Spanish acronym), form of administration, complications, concomitant medication. The statistical methodology included a descriptive analysis and a study of the correlations between the different variables. For the comparison of both groups, Student's t test or Mann-Whitney's U test was used for quantitative variables and X-squared, Yates's correction or Fisher's exact test was used for qualitative variables. Results: 469 patients were studied, corresponding to 13 publicly-funded centres. Age: 81.15 years (95percent-flag-change CI 80.8-82.3), women (70.6 percent-flag-change). Diagnoses: neurological disorders (46.1percent-flag-change), cerebrovascular accidents (27.5percent-flag-change), neoplasia (12.4percent-flag-change) and others (14.1percent-flag-change). 45.2percent-flag-change presented a bedbound disability status and 53.5percent-flag-change presented communication difficulties. Standard diet was the most common (39.4percent-flag-change). Duration of the nutrition: ygt; 1 year in 36.7percent-flag-change of cases, between 6 months and 1 year for 21.3percent-flag-change, between 3 and 6 months for 10.9percent-flag-change and ylt; 3 months in 13.7percent-flag-change of cases. Nasogastric tube was the route for administration in 55.2percent-flag-change. Patients With nutrition treatment lasting over 1 year presented a significantly lower rate of malnutrition (p ylt; 0.0001). Neurological patients and those with communication difficulties had a lower prevalence of malnutrition (p ylt; 0.0001), as did those with a greater degree of disability (p ylt; 0.01). Undernourished patients presented a greater prevalence of bedsores (49.1percent-flag-change versus 25.8percent-flag-change, p ylt; 0.0001). The mean number of prescribed medicines was 3.27 ampersand-flag-changeplusmn; 2.41, with 64percent-flag-change of them being administered through the nasogastric tube. The most frequent interaction was digoxin-fibre (29.6percent-flag-change) and incorrect administration was observed with omeprazol and medication to combat Parkinson's disease.
