Nutritional screening with Subjective Global Assessment predicts hospital stay in patients with digestive diseases

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• 作者：Toshitatsu Wakahara ; Makoto Shiraki ; Kayoko Murase ; Hideki Fukushima ; Katsuhiko Matsuura ; Ayumi Fukao ; Sachiko Kinoshita ; Naoko Kaifuku ; Naoe Arakawa ; Takashi Tamura ; Junpei Iwasa ; Nobuo Murakami ; Tak
• 关键词：Nutritional screening ; Nutritional assessment ; Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) ; Outcome survey ; Hospital stay ; Digestive diseases
• 刊名：Nutrition
• 出版年：2007
• 期刊代码：81_08999007
• 类别：abs
• 出版时间：September 2007
• 卷：23
• 期：9
• 页码：634-639
• 文件大小：208 K

摘要

Nutritional status is an important factor that determines hospital stay, and the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) is a candidate tool for nutritional screening on admission. However, the significance of the SGA has not been evaluated well in the ward for digestive diseases. We conducted the present study to test whether the SGA predicts hospital stay of these patients.

Methods

Two hundred sixty-two patients with digestive diseases were consecutively enrolled between July 2004 and April 2005. They consisted of 145 males and 117 females and included 110 patients with cancer. Disease category was gastrointestinal in 94, hepatic in 111, and biliary/pancreatic in 57. The SGA was performed by a certified dietician. Effects of SGA and other nutritional parameters on hospital stay were examined by simple and multiple regression analysis.

Results

Among tested variables, simple regression analysis identified the SGA, disease category, presence of malignancy, serum albumin level, percent triceps skinfold thickness, and percent arm muscle circumference as significant predictive parameters for hospital stay. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the SGA had the best predictive power, followed by the presence of malignancy and disease category.

Conclusion

The SGA is a simple and reliable predictor for hospital stay in patients with digestive diseases.