Spanish hospitals patients suffer from malnutrition.

Madrid, April 2010.- this malnutrition often lead to complications in the recovery of patients involving an increase of stay in the hospital, and therefore higher health care costs and more discomfort for patients, as stated by the Mrs Christianne Madirolas (responsible for ARAMARK and nutritionist at the Fundación Puigvert feeding)He noted that symptoms of malnutrition between 30% and 50% of patients admitted to hospitals of all ages has been showing in recent years.

The causes, according to Mrs Madirolas are multiple and summarized in that feed is not only to feed ”, ranging from lack of nutritionists in some centres, the abolition of food due to continuous diagnostic testing, to the extension of the sueroterapia as a single food or ineffective management of the kitchenIt does not offer solutions tailored to patients with special needs.

To address this problem which can compromise even the response to the disease in some patients and can be serious in the case of long stays, Ms. Madirolas gave the example of the hospitals managed by ARAMARK, where under his direction has introduced a scheme of service that includes:

-dietary advice to the entry of the patientincluding a nutritional survey and taking into account their anthropometric data.
-Monitoring service by a nutritionist. trays
-Application of dietary protocols with three basic combinations, normal, diabetic diet and astringent in all four meals per day.
-Potential choice of menus for therapeutic diets.
-Visit personalised to patients by a nutritionist who values the analytical results.
-Delivery and explanation to the patient’s diet at the time of signup.

These statements were made by Ms. Madirolas at its Conference on food in hospitals at the fourteenth National Conference of nutrition practice held in the authority of Medicine of the UCM on 27 and 28 April.

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