NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS IN AN AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Anz Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 50 (5) , 516-519
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1980.tb04183.x
Abstract
A simple nutritional assessment was performed in 92 consecutive patients undergoing abdominal surgery, excluding appendicitis. The patients were given a nutritional score, and on the basis of that score were described as malnourished or normal. There was a statistically significant increase in postoperative complications in the malnourished group. This increase was observed in both the major and the minor complication groups, and also when septic and non‐septic, and wound and non‐wound, complications were considered.Keywords
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