Nutritional risk screening and application of nutritional support on hospitalized patients in digestive disease department
Objective To investigate the nutritional risk.,Malnutrition rate and nutrition support in inpatients in digestive disease department. Methods 178 inpatients in digestive disease department were enrolled.Nutritional risk screening 2002 was conducted the next morning after admission and the nutrition support was investigated within 2 weeks or at the end of hospitalization.Results NRS2002 screening rate was 94.4%(169/178).The total rate of nutritional risk was 38.4%(62/178) and malnutrition rate was 11.5%(20/178),respectively.62 patients of which,24 received nutrition support.Those without nutritional risk,5 patients received nutrition support.The average PN:EN ratio was 7∶1.Conclusions NRS2002 could be applied to inpatients in digestive disease department,with high nutritional risk.Nutrition support is feasible for this kind of inpatients.