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Anastasia Chatzoglou<\/a>,\u00a0Kalliopi-Anna Poulia<\/a>,\u00a0Parthena Giannoulaki<\/a>,\u00a0Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos<\/a>,\u00a0Sofia Zouganeli<\/a>,\u00a0Theodora Lappa<\/a>,\u00a0Varvara Mylona<\/a>,\u00a0Eleni Papagiannidou<\/a>,\u00a0Amalia Tsagari<\/a>,\u00a0Eleni Fotiadou<\/a>,\u00a0Michalis Chourdakis<\/a>,\u00a0Meropi Kontogianni<\/a><\/p>\n [\/authors]<\/p>\n [summary]<\/p>\n Aim:<\/strong> \u03a4\u03bf describe the results of a sub-sample of the Greek hospitals that participated in the \u201cnutritionDay 2011\u201d\u00a0initiative and to record current practices regarding nutritional screening and dietary treatment of hospitalized patients.\u00a0Moreover, variables that affect the length of hospital stay were explored.<\/p>\n Material-Methods:<\/strong> Two hundred and thirty patients,from 13 different wards in 5 Greek hospitals were included in the study. During the scheduled \u201cnutritionDay 2011\u201d, all\u00a0the relevant questionnaires of the project were completed and one month later patients\u2019 clinical outcome was recorded.\u00a0Data were analysed with PASW Statistics 19.0.<\/p>\n Results:<\/strong> None of the departments included in the program applied nutritional\u00a0screening as a routine procedure, except from a burn unit. Twelve out of 13 departments reported that they weigh\u00a0patients only when necessary. The 40.4% of patients reported unintentional weight loss during the last trimester, whereas\u00a042.1% reported dietary intake less than half of usual during the last week before the nutritionDay. On nutritionDay, 13% of\u00a0the patients did not consume the main meal offered, mainly due to loss of appetite or poor meal quality. Length of hospital\u00a0stay was associated with surgical operation (\u03b2=1.46, P=0.002), cancer presence (\u03b2=0.74, P=0.04) and unintentional weight\u00a0loss during the last trimester (\u03b2=1.03, P=0.005), after adjustment for other co-founders.<\/p>\n Conclusions:<\/strong> Nutritional screening\u00a0is not a routine procedure in the Greek hospitals. Variables such as recent unintentional weight loss should be incorporated\u00a0into patients\u2019 assessment and follow-up given that they are associated with prolonged length of hospital stay.<\/p>\n [\/summary]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aim: \u03a4\u03bf describe the results of a sub-sample of the Greek hospitals that participated in the \u201cnutritionDay 2011\u201d initiative and to record current practices regarding nutritional screening and dietary treatment of hospitalized patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}