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Malnutrition and nutritional care practices in hospital wards for older people

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Vanderwee, Katrien Clays, Els Bocquaert, Ilse Verhaeghe, Sofie Lardennois, Miguel Gobert, Micheline [UCL] Defloor, Tom

AIMS: This paper is a report of a study conducted to gain a better insight into the current nutritional care practices in Belgian hospital wards for older people, and to study the association between these practices and the prevalence of malnutrition. BACKGROUND: In 1999, the Council of Europe assessed nutritional care practices and support in 12 European countries and showed them to be sparse and inconsistent. At the time of research, no studies had described the association between nutritional care practices and malnutrition prevalence in Belgium. METHODS: In 2007, a cross-sectional survey was carried out in a representative sample of Belgian hospital wards for older people. In total, 2094 patients from 140 wards for older people were included. RESULTS: The overall prevalence rate of malnutrition in wards for older people was 31.9%. Nutritional care practices such as nutritional screening and assessment, use of a standardized screening instrument and a nutritional protocol were suboptimal. Multilevel analysis revealed that ward characteristics explained for 9.1% whether a patient was malnourished or not. None of the registered nutritional care practices could explain a patient's individual risk. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition is a frequently occurring problem on hospital wards for older people. Increased consciousness among healthcare professionals and hospital policy makers of the importance of nutritional care will contribute to further improvement in care quality.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2010
Language Anglais
Journal information "Journal of Advanced Nursing" - Vol. 67, no. 4, p. 736-46 (2011)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ((United Kingdom) Oxford)
issn 0309-2402
e-issn 1365-2648
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSS/IRSS - Institut de recherche santé et société
MESH Subject Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Hospital Units - organization & administration, statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Length of Stay ; Male ; Malnutrition - diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy ; Mass Screening - utilization ; Nursing Staff, Hospital - supply & distribution ; Nutrition Assessment ; Nutritional Status - physiology ; Patient Care Planning ; Attitude of Health Personnel ; Practice Guidelines as Topic ; Belgium - epidemiology ; Clinical Competence ; Elder Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - physiology ; Epidemiologic Methods ; Female ; Guideline Adherence - standards ; Health Services for the Aged - standards, statistics & numerical data
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Bibliographic reference Vanderwee, Katrien ; Clays, Els ; Bocquaert, Ilse ; Verhaeghe, Sofie ; Lardennois, Miguel ; et. al. Malnutrition and nutritional care practices in hospital wards for older people. In: Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 67, no. 4, p. 736-46 (2011)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/111561