Abstract

Background: There's a lack of substantiation regarding the association between the under nutrition threat at sanitarium admission with adverse clinical issues amongst pulmonology convalescents. The end of this study was to quantify the association between under nutrition threat at sanitarium admission and time to discharge alive.

Method: A retrospective cohort study including cases successively admitted to a pulmonology unit was conducted. Undernutrition threat at sanitarium admission was linked using the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool. Survival analyses (Kaplan – Meier angles and Cox retrogression) were carried out.

Results: The sample was composed of 683 cases. Cases who presented high undernutrition threat on sanitarium admission had a longer length of sanitarium stay (roughly 50 were discharged to home after 14 days of hospitalization). In the multivariable Cox retrogression, high undernutrition threat was shown to be singly associated with a lower probability of discharge alive over time (acclimated hazard rate = 0.70; 95 confidence interval0.55 –0.90).

Conclusions: Pulmonology convalescents with high under nutrition threat have a longer length of sanitarium stay and had a lower probability of being discharged to home. In particular, lung cancer cases had a lower probability of being discharged to home, which corroborates a worse prognostic for these cases.