Nutritional risks in hospitalized patients with liver diseases and the countermeasures

VernacularTitle:肝脏疾病患者营养风险状况分析及对策
Author: Penglin TANG ; Lifen CHEN ; Changgui LIAO ; Haidan YE ; Xiang GAO ; Shi FANG ; Jiaming LAI
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: liver disease; nutritional risk; nursing
From: Modern Clinical Nursing 2014;(9):1-3,4
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the nutritional risks in hospitalized patients with liver diseases and work out nursing countermeasures.Methods Forty patients with liver cirrhosis, 40 patients with primary liver cancer and another 40 revisiting after liver transplantation involved in the investigation with a self-designed general information questionnaire and the nutritional risk screening 2002. The three groups were compared in terms of nutritional risks.Results Among the total 120 patients,38.3%(46/120)of them took the nutritional risk and even 12.5%(15/120)had the risk of undernourishment.The risk in the patients with liver cirrhosis was higher than that in the other two groups(χ2=9.899 and 11.4299 and P=0.002 and 0.001,respectively).Conclusions The nursing staffs should pay attention to the nutritional status of patients with liver diseases, especially the patients with liver cirrhosis.It is necessary to take effective measures in order to improve the nutritional status of the patients to reduce the nutritional risks.