[VALIDATION OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTION OF MALNUTRITION HOSPITAL AND ANALYSIS OF HOSPITAL COSTS].

Background: one of the methods of diagnosis of malnutrition is serum albumin, for the simplicity of its determination and low cost.

Objectives: the main objective is to validate and implement a computer program based on the determination of serum albumin, allowing early detection and treatment to malnourished or at risk of malnutrition patients, still another objective evaluation of costs by diagnosis-related groups.

Methods: the study design is cohort, dynamic and prospective, which are included hospital discharge from november 2012 until march 2014, being the study population of patients over age 14 who enter the various services of a Medical Surgical Hospital of the Granada's Hospital Complex Univesity, whose numbers are lower serum albumin 3.

[Patterns of rare congenital diseases in patients admitted to a regional hospital].

Background: To describe the pattern of patients admitted due to rare diseases corresponding to congenital anomalies in a regional hospital.

Methods: Retrospective transversal study. We considered hospital discharges for the years 2009-2012 with principal diagnosis between codes CIE 9R MC 740-759.

[Study of death with secondary diagnosis of malnutrition in a third level hospital].

Background: Malnutrition is a major public health problems, according to WHO, is the leading cause of death, when it affects the group of hospitalized patients, making denominating separate entity "hospital malnutrition".

Objectives: The overall objective is to quantify the main diagnoses frequently high, causing exitus, with secondary diagnosis of malnutrition.

Methods: This is a descriptive study, which included all hospital discharges in 2011 and first half of 2012, which have been exitus and whose secondary diagnosis of malnutrition, with the total of 33.

Placing medical information in the hands of the judiciary: medicolegal problems.

The purpose of this study was to analyse the potential problems associated with sending hospital patients' medical records to different levels of the judiciary. Transmittal of such information may create a conflict between the duty to cooperate with the legal system and the patient's right to privacy. In our analysis of a total of nearly 380 such transmittals of medical histories in Spain, we found that approximately 90% involved possible negligence on the part of the hospital administration.