Publications by authors named "Sebastian Celaya-Perez"
Clinical nutrition has evolved in our country from the super-specialization of parenteral nutrition (PN) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) up to the community care of health. In the beginning, PN was used in a minimum percentage of hospitalized patients; the development of the enteral nutrition (EN) meant an extension of the beneficiaries to achieve a correct nutritional contribution. By getting involved in the diet code the responsibility was extended to the entire hospitalized population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: dysphagia and malnutrition are conditions that frequently appear together in hospitalized patients.
Objectives: the main purpose of this study was to analyze the prevalence of malnutrition in patients with dysphagia included in the PREDyCES study as well as to determine its clinical and economic consequences.
Methods: this is a substudy of an observational, cross-sectional study conducted in 31 sites all over Spain.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the economic effects of hospital malnutrition and the cost of longer hospital stays according to the Prevalence of Hospital Malnutrition and Associated Costs in Spain (PREDyCES) study data.
Methods: This was a nested case-control study in a prospective cohort of patients (n = 114) who were at nutritional risk at admission and controls (n = 354) who were not at risk at admission. The total cost of hospital stay was the cost of the bed plus the cost of drugs administered during the stay.
Purpose: In oncology patients, hospital malnutrition is associated with a greater risk of morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of nutritional risk and the clinical and economic consequences of hospital malnutrition in oncology patients hospitalised in Spanish centres.
Methods: This was an observational, cross-sectional, multicentre study.