Abstract
A total of 101 patients who received NST intervention in 2015 were divided into two groups by NST outcome. Patients who achieved therapeutic targets were classified in the success group. Patients who discontinued treatment because of worsening condition or death were classified in the non success group. We assessed patient characteristics, laboratory data, and nutritional support methods. Prior to this study, we retrospectively extracted NST outcome predictors for patients treated in 2014, and identified cutoff values of quantitative variables using receiver operating characteristic analysis.
Highlights
Malnutrition in the elderly is a risk factor for poor clinical outcomes, negatively affecting the rate of disease remission or cure, and is associated with an increase in complications, mortality rate, and length of hospital stay [1,2,3,4,5]
We conducted the multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, sex, the presence/absence of Peripheral Parenteral Nutrition (PPN), and Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT)
The presence of PPN tended to be associated with Nutrition Support Team (NST) outcome (OR: 2.63, 95% CI: 0.96-7.20)
Summary
Malnutrition in the elderly is a risk factor for poor clinical outcomes, negatively affecting the rate of disease remission or cure, and is associated with an increase in complications, mortality rate, and length of hospital stay [1,2,3,4,5]. When elderly patients experiencing illness at home or in the nursing home are admitted to a higher function hospital in an urban area, it is difficult to improve their nutritional status to a healthy threshold, because disease status, as well as malnutrition, are more difficult to improve in the elderly than in the young [12,13]. Considering that the world population is aging [14], it is anticipated that there will be a large scale challenge in effectively improving malnutrition in the elderly. Many studies have been performed to evaluate the effects of NST
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