Hospitalisation for Pneumonia Clinical Trial
Official title:
Prospective Study to Quantify the Change in Weight at a Pneumonia
This study is based on the change in weight of hospitalized patients knowing that the
diagnosis of malnutrition based on the presence of at least one clinical or laboratory test
which anthropometric measures (Evaluation of diagnostic protein energy malnutrition in
hospitalized adults ANAES , Guidelines Department, September 2003; HAS Strategy supported in
cases of wasting energy and protein in the elderly April 2007).
The goal of this study is to find the correlation between hospitalization and weight loss,
significant risk factors for malnutrition in a situation of community-acquired pneumonia
infection.
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