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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation to Portuguese of The Patient- And Nutrition-Derived Outcome Risk Assessment Score (PANDORA)

Lima, J. B. d.·Campos, M. B.·Ribeiro, L. S.·Taboada, M. I. S.
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IntroductionHospital malnutrition presents alarming rates and is characterized as an independent risk factor for mortality. Hospital mortality has been studied as an important indicator of the quality of care. In this sense, the Patient- And Nutrition-Derived Outcome Risk Assessment Score (PANDORA) was created, seeking to associate the nutritional status and in-patients illness data with the risk of death within 30 days. The study aimed to perform the translation, cross-cultural adaptation to Portuguese and application of an instrument of identification of mortality risk in the hospital setting.\n\nMethodsA crosssectional study was carried out in a university hospital in the city of Goiania-GO, Brazil, in 2018. A translation and adaptation of the PANDORA instrument was carried out and it was applied to hospitalized patients to evaluate their power to predict mortality.\n\nResultsFifty-four 54 patients were included in the study, most of them female and 33% elderly. More than 16% of the sample presented low weight, which was positively associated with the occurrence of death. The prevalence of cancer was almost 80% and all patients who died had cancer. In the adjusted logistic regression analysis, it was verified that there was no association between the PANDORA score and death in hospitalized patients, however, there was a trend of association of sex and body mass index with death in these patients.\n\nConclusionsIn this study, the PANDORA score was not able to predict death in the patients in our sample, but found significant association of low weight at admission with mortality. Further studies are needed for the validation of PANDORA in Portuguese.

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Lima, J. B. d., Campos, M. B., Ribeiro, L. S., Taboada, M. I. S.. 2019-03-20. Translation and cross-cultural adaptation to Portuguese of The Patient- And Nutrition-Derived Outcome Risk Assessment Score (PANDORA). https://doi.org/10.1101/584078

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