Nutritional Improvement and Energy Intake Are Associated with Functional Recovery in XXXX after @entity1504 .

@entity1 @entity510 @entity1504 @entity177 @entity1779 @entity385
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition affects the activities of daily living (ADLs) in convalescent @entity1 with @entity1504 . We investigated the relationship between nutritional improvement, energy intake at admission, and recovery of ADLs. METHODS: We evaluated 67 @entity1 with @entity1504 admitted to our rehabilitation hospital between April 2013 and April 2015. These @entity1 received interventions from the rehabilitation nutritional support team according to the following criteria: weight loss of 2   kg or more and body mass index of 19   kg/m(2) or lower. Exclusion criteria included a body mass index of 25   kg/m(2) or higher, duration of intervention of less than 14 days, or transfer to an acute care hospital because of clinical deterioration. We assessed nutritional status using the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) and ADL using the @entity177 ( @entity177 ) score, @entity177 gain, and @entity177 efficiency. RESULTS: The mean age of the @entity1 was 78.7        8.0 years. The numbers of @entity1 in each category of @entity1504 were 39 with @entity385 , 16 with @entity1779 , 8 with @entity510 , and 4 others. Compared with the counterpart group, the group with an improvement in GNRI had a greater gain in @entity177 (median 17 and 20, respectively; P   =   .036) and a higher @entity177 efficiency (.14 and .22, respectively; P   =   .020). Multivariate stepwise regression analysis showed that an improvement in GNRI, increasing energy intake at admission, and @entity1779 were associated independently with greater @entity177 efficiency. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggested that nutritional improvement and energy intake at admission are associated with recovery of ADL after @entity1504 .
