Hopital Albert Chenevier, Creteil

Hospital patients with multiple NIs were older with altered nutritional status

Published in Law and Health Weekly, January 14th, 2006

Hospital patients with multiple nosocomial infections were older, showed an altered nutritional status, and a prolonged recovery.

"Hospital-acquired infections and malnutrition are of major concern in public health in elderly patients. However, the interactions between these two entities are not well established," researchers in France report.

E. Paillaud and colleagues working with the Hopital Albert Chenevier in Creteil proposed "to determine the incidence of nosocomial infections (NI) and its association with malnutrition. 185 hospitalised older adults aged 81.6±0.6 years old were nutritionally assessed on admission by measurement of...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2006-01-14)

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